Off-campus Library Services

Introduction

This site provides information to help A&M-Commerce students, staff, and faculty access library services and resources from places outside the main campus. The information is aimed primarily at people involved in distance-education, off-campus, and web-based courses, but others may benefit from it as well.

Contents

• Learning about how to use the library
  • How do I obtain library materials? -- You may not need to come to campus to get books and articles! This detailed guide describes the options available to off-campus students and faculty.
  • Database Help booklet -- extensive and very helpful
  • Library guide -- (under construction, not much here yet)
• Books
• LION -- look for books and other materials in our online catalog
• Book renewal request -- emails the circulation staff to extend borrowing period on items checked out from Gee Library
• NetLibrary -- read full-text books online (First time? Read about using NetLibrary.)
• Articles
  • Library databases -- search these to find articles on a particular topic
  • Accessing databases from off-campus -- search our databases from off-campus locations
  • Full-text databases -- list of our library databases that provide full-text articles
  • Which database should I use? -- helps you figure out which of the library databases will have what you need
  • Current Journals -- list of periodicals currently received by the Gee Library, plus those found in our full-text databases
• Interlibrary loan (ILL) -- get books and articles even if A&M-Commerce doesn't have them (items delivered to Gee Library unless otherwise specified)
• Book request -- sends your request form to us electronically
• Book request (cut/paste) -- sends your request form to us electronically, allows cutting and pasting information directly from databases
• Book request -- print out and return by regular mail or campus mail
• Book request, send to Metroplex -- sends your request form to us electronically, delivers item to our Metroplex Center library
• Journal request -- sends your request form to us electronically
• Journal request (cut/paste) -- sends your request form to us electronically, allows cutting and pasting information directly from databases
• Journal request -- print out and return by regular mail or campus mail
• Journal request, send to Metroplex -- sends your request form to us electronically, delivers item to our Metroplex Center library
• Branch libraries
  • Metroplex Center library -- located in Mesquite
  • Navarro College Partnership -- our students at Navarro can use their library to access our resources (ask at the Navarro College library for more information)
  • Texas A&M University-Commerce Navarro College Partnership in Midlothian -- located in Midlothian
• Using other libraries
  • TexShare Card application (electronic) -- use your TexShare card to check out books from other TexShare libraries around the state
  • TexShare Card application (regular mail) -- same as above, but you print out form and return by mail
• Gee Library
  • Gee Library home page -- access to our library services over the Internet
  • What's New -- new links, new databases, trial databases
• Finding information on the Internet
  • Internet Subject Resources -- pages of relevant links provided by our library
  • Evaluating web sites -- describes ways to judge the accuracy and usefulness of information from web sites
• Need help or information?
• Call the reference desk at (903) 886-5720

[ Off-campus Library Services - table of contents ]
[ Database Help booklet | Library guide ]
[ Gee Library home page | A&M-Commerce home page ]

Jake Pichnarcik
Interlibrary Loan Department
Gee Library, Texas A&M University - Commerce
PO Box 3011, Commerce, TX 75429
phone: (903) 886-5741
email: Jacob_Pichnarcik@tamu-commerce.edu

Last updated September 2005.