Borrowing Policies for Faculty
Faculty and their spouses or partners are welcome to make
use of the Grinnell College Libraries, its materials,
and services. For details about our circulation policies
for faculty and their families, please see the information
provided on our circulation
policies page.
Borrowing privileges for short-term faculty and their
families are different from those of long-term faculty.
Please view policies for visiting faculty at our circulation
policies page.
Interlibrary Loan
The Grinnell College Libraries will borrow material from
libraries around the world. Please see the interlibrary
loan page for more information and for the online
request form.
Center for Research
Libraries.
Grinnell College Libraries is a member of the Center
for Research Libraries. The Center collects foreign newspapers,
dissertations, government documents from around the world,
and many other collections that are difficult for most
single libraries to acquire. This material is available
through interlibrary loan. Talk to a librarian for more
information or search the CRL
Catalog.
Grinnell College librarians are happy to work with you.
You will find us at the reference desk or on call. If
you don't see a reference librarian at the reference desk,
please check at the circulation desk (x3350) for assistance
in locating a librarian. You may also contact us by email
(query@grinnell.edu)
or by phone. For phone numbers and emails of individual
librarians please see our consulting librarians
page or go to the library
directory.
Each department and concentration has a consulting librarian to assist you and your
students.
INNOPAC (the Grinnell College Libraries' Catalog)
The libraries' Web-based catalog is available at http://cat.lib.grinnell.edu.
A text-based (ascii)
interface is also available. Use our catalog to locate
books, journals and magazines, newspapers, sound recordings,
videos and DVDs, microfilm, Web pages, and any other format
of material we collect. For questions, contact
a reference librarian in person at our reference desk,
send a message to query@grinnell.edu,
or call the reference desk at 641-269-3353 during reference
hours. You may also contact your consulting librarian
or another librarian or library staff member directly.
Please see the library
directory.
Libraries' Web Site
The libraries' Web
site is a good place
to start when looking for material available through the
libraries or accessible via the World Wide Web. A librarian
will be happy to assist you in navigating our Web pages
if you have questions.
Indexes and Databases
The libraries make available a variety of print and electronic
indexes, abstracts, and other databases. You may choose
from several options to identify the databases that might
be useful to you on our Databases and Indexes
Web page. For more information or assistance with questions
call or stop by the reference desk at 269-3353 or ask
a circulation desk supervisor or assistant to help you
locate a librarian.
