Please Note:   Onsite distance learning students, or those who live nearby and can visit the library, have full circulation privileges at the NMSU Library. They need not contact the ILL/DDS office for assistance.

Articles

Distance learning students have the following options in contacting the ILL/DDS office:

Use the online request form for photocopies of journal articles

Phone in the request by calling 505 646-7676

Mail a request to: Cynthia Watkins, Document Delivery Librarian

Faculty must send their class roster to the ILL/DDS office to ensure students

For each article request, students must provide a complete citation, their name, status

Onsite distance learning students, or those who live nearby, and can visit the library

Students who are distant from campus will need to order books from their local public library.

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Reference Assistance

Students have many options when asking for Reference Assistance. They can:

fill out the web reference form

phone the either Reference Desk at 505-646-5791 (Branson) or 505-646-5792 (Zuhl)

fax a request to 505-646-3390

directly contact a reference librarian via e-mail.

or send a letter to: Reference Dept., University Library, Dept. 3475, P.O. 30006,

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006

Students should let us know their preferred method of communication (e.g., e-mail, phone, fax) as well as their status as a distance learning student.

Reference librarians will assist students with their research in a variety of ways. For example, we will help them formulate a search strategy for their research topic. We can suggest other unexplored resources. These can be print, proprietary and non-proprietary electronic databases, or even web sources. In special cases, where students don't have any means of electronic access, they can work individually with a reference librarian who will perform a search on several agreed-upon databases. Students will then receive the search results and from that list can evaluate and select source materials to be ordered via Document Delivery or by phone at 505-646-7676.

As with all students, distance learning students are expected to be the owners of their research projects. In other words, they are the decision makers for shaping their research questions, for selecting resource materials and for initiating document delivery requests.

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Reserves

Students have full access to electronic reserves.

Faculty can submit reserve materials in the following formats:

hard copy

on diskette in ASCII format

cd-roms that accompany textbooks

Faculty can have their reserve material available in electronic format, downloadable to students in Adobe PDF file format.

Faculty are no longer required to secure copyright clearance for reserve materials. Now the library will clear copyrighted material through the Copyright Clearinghouse Center (CCC).

Please submit your reserve requests in one of three ways:

Fill out an electronic reserve form.

Send us an e-mail request at reserves@lib.nmsu.edu

Bring your materials to us at the Circulation Desk.

Questions? Give us a call at 646-4441. You might also want to look over our Electronic Reserve Guidelines, Instructions and Form.

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