Integrated Services at T.J. Shanahan Library
The following services that were previously offered at the T.J. Shanahan Library as part of Marymount College are now being integrated into Northeastern University Library’s offerings for the New York City campus.
Databases and E-Journals
Databases can now be found under the A-Z Database list on the Northeastern Library University Website. After navigating, please use the search to find your desired database.
E-Journals available to Marymount affiliates are still available via the Marymount catalogue. These will be made available on Northeastern Library’s ScholarOne Search Journal Finder. In the meantime, please feel free to either other journal finders for your research.
For more information about how to find items, please refer to the New York City Global Campus Portal.
Resource Acquisition
Please fill out this form to for Resource Acquisition at the T.J. Shanahan Library (form coming soon)
Bibliographic Instruction
All Writing 102 classes are provided with two sessions of bibliographic instruction. Scheduling is done through Mary Brown [email protected] and instructors are asked to schedule at least two weeks before the date of the class.
In addition, faculty in other departments are encouraged to arrange for library instruction which will be aimed at the specific needs of their classes. The library uses an “information literacy” approach to bibliographic instruction that emphasizes the skills needed to identify information needs, select and effectively use both print and online resources, and critically evaluate sources. Students are instructed on selecting and refining a research topic, thesis development, using the online catalog, search strategies for both periodical databases and the World Wide Web, evaluating print and online sources, etc.
Course Reserves
When faculty members have material that they want to be readily accessible for the students in their class, that material can be put on reserve in the library.
For Students
Students can then go straight to the Circulation Desk to request the material with the stipulation that:
- The student has a valid, current ID Card;
- The material does not leave the library, and;
- Each student can use the material for no more than two hours at a time.
For Faculty
Faculty must fill out a Reserve Request Form indicating the Instructor’s name, the academic department and class number, the title of the class, and the semester in which the material will be needed. There is also room to show what type of material is being reserved (books or articles), whether the material belongs to the instructor or is from the library collection, the number of copies, and the item barcode(s).
After the faculty member has filled out the form and given the material to a librarian or a staff member, it has to be processed through the computer as a reserved item. For books from our collection, this simply is a matter of changing the status from “circulating item” to “reserved item”. For material belonging to the instructor, it means creating records for the item.
The Reserve Request Forms are kept in a binder and filed alphabetically by instructor’s last name; reserved articles are kept in file drawers filed first alphabetically by instructor’s name, then alphabetically by title; reserve books are kept on shelves behind the Circulation Desk in alphabetical order by title.
It is therefore of the utmost importance that the students know: a) whether the reserve material they need is in the form of a book or an article, b) the exact title of the book and the article in which it appears as well as the instructor’s name and the name of the class. Ideally, faculty members who have indicated in their syllabus that material has been put on reserve should be sure to have the material brought to the library before the semester begins. Students get very upset when the designated reserve materials are not available and you can help solve this problem by putting the material on Reserve before you assign it.
Because of space limitations, we must at times limit the amount of material any one teacher can place on reserve during a given semester. At the end of each semester, all reserve materials will be removed from Reserve Status. Library books will be returned to our circulating collection and teacher’s copies are returned to them or to their division