Services for Faculty

Each academic department or program at Bethel has a librarian assigned to support its faculty. Whether you'd like to schedule a library instruction session or have a librarian assist in acquiring resources for your courses or obtaining materials for your own research, your library liaison is ready to help.

Research librarians enhance the student learning experience in your courses by providing instruction in:

• Finding appropriate research resources
• Using effective searching techniques and strategies
• Using online indexes/databases
• Using research tools such as EndNote Fusion

Find your library liaison.

Books, DVDs, and other physical materials are put on reserve in the library to ensure that they are accessible to all of the students in a course. Get started using our online form.

Putting items on reserve for a course

1. Select your items

   Items may be from the library, or you can bring in items from your personal collection. Items will be returned to you when the reserve period is over.

   Note: Items from other libraries cannot be placed on reserve.

   If the library doesn't own something you want on reserve, you may request that we purchase it using our materials request form. Please make your request at least four weeks before your students will need to access the item.

2. Determine copyright requirements

   The library will facilitate placing items on reserve for students in strict accordance with U.S. copyright law. Most legally obtained physical materials are fine to put on reserve, but photocopies (especially multiple copies of the same item) often require permission from the copyright holder. Instructors are responsible for obtaining permission when needed.

3. Give us your information

   You can either fill out our online form or fill out a paper form when you drop your items off. Please be sure that the information you give us matches your syllabus description.

While the library does not have an attorney on staff and cannot offer legal advice as you make copyright decisions, librarians can often help you think through the issues and questions you need to consider when dealing with copyright.

If you have copyright questions, view the copyright guide to find information about common copyright questions. For further assistance, contact information is available on the guide.

Do you know of something our library should have in its collections? Would you like to use some of your department's library allocation for a book, DVD, or other resource? Use our online purchase request form!

If our library doesn't have something you need for your research, we can usually get a copy for you through interlibrary loan. See information about how to use our interlibrary loan service.

Faculty can obtain direct borrowing privileges for University of Minnesota library materials by submitting a copy of their appointment letter or contract for the current academic year. For more information, Review the University of Minnesota's special borrowing privileges.

Most library databases allow you to set up alerts to receive notifications when new research is published. Follow our step-by-step guide to set up search alerts.