Library Services: ACPHS Library Services: For Faculty

Services for Faculty

Library Liaisons

Each faculty member has a library liaison, a librarian who works with you to provide the materials and peronsal services specific to your work at the College.

We can assist you with:

literature searches
developing information guides for students in your courses
delivering information literacy instruction to students in your courses
measuring the impact of your research for promotion & tenure

Please feel free to contact your library liaison at any time.

Information Literacy Instruction

Librarians are available to give individualized and group instruction on information resources and information literacy skill development to both faculty and students. If you would like to set up an appointment to receive resource instruction or to schedule instruction for your class, please contact your liaison.

We also work with you to develop information guides for students in your specific classes. For an example, please visit the BIO 210: Microbiology guide.

Feel free to contact your liaision anytime. We're happy to work with you.

Course Reserves

Faculty members may request placement of physical materials on reserve in the Library for use by students in their classes.

Reserves are ideal for books, old exams, movies, and/or other materials that are required or recommended for students enrolled in your courses.

To place materials on reserve, please complete a reserve form.

Please note:

Reserve requests are reviewed in the order in which they are received.
Materials must stay in the Library. They may be checked out for two-hour loan periods.
Departmental items placed on reserve are subject to Library markings, such as barcodes, security sensors, and colored tape. They will be returned to their departments at the end of the semester.
The Library, its staff, and the College cannot give legal advice regarding copyright law. It is up to each individual in each instance of use to determine whether the intended use of materials adheres to the Copyright Law of the United States.
For more information, visit our copyright page.

Textbooks

As a general policy, the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Libraries do not purchase textbooks or add donated textbooks to the library collections. Faculty may choose to place a departmental copy (i.e. purchased with ACPHS funds) of a textbook on reserve in the library for a specific course and the textbook will be returned to you at the end of the course.

This practice is related to issues of space, resources, and mission. Textbooks are quickly outdated, and acquisition would hinder our efforts to develop a collection of lasting value.

For the purposes of this policy, a textbook is a book specifically designed to be used as the basis of a course of study. They are typically designed for a semester-long course and often have a companion teacher’s edition. Textbooks are commonly reissued in updated editions every year or two, and typically contain examples, problems, practice exams, etc. Scholarly studies, works of literature, history, philosophy, and other types of texts may be required reading for a class but they are not considered to be textbooks as defined above. Sometimes texts required for a course may already be part of the library’s holdings because they meet the criteria of the library’s general collection development policy, not because they are required for specific classes.

Please note that, as academic libraries generally do not purchase textbooks, they are not available on interlibrary loan. Library Services does not fill Interlibrary Loan requests for textbooks in current use at the College.

If you have suggestions for items to be added to the library’s collection, we would love to hear from you.