Info and Services for Graduate Students
Instruction/Services
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Are You a Grad Assistant? Info Specific for YOU
Instruction and Services from YOUR
Reference Librarian
Each RIT college has a Reference
Librarian to serve as liaison (click here to view list). The
Reference Librarian for your college is your first contact for consultation
and assistance related to your research needs. Find
out more about Research Assistance.
Library Resources - Quick Overview
- Borrowing RIT Library Material
Grad students may have up to 50 items checked out at any one time.
The books from the general collection have a 10 week due date and
are renewable if not need by another. The library also has leisure
material for your use: best-selling books, videos and DVD's. ALL
borrowers pay late recall fines, billed book fees and lost book
costs. Avoid
fines, learn more....read our Borrowing Policies.
- Course Reserves
Designed to provide students a central place to access supplemental
course materials from their professors. We provide materials to
in two formats as chosen by your professor: traditional (print)
and online (password-protected delivered via the Internet) Read
more.
- Borrowing Books Directly via Connect NY
Connect NY is a combined catalog of 10 cooperating academic libraries
offering 7+ million volumes. Current RIT students, faculty and
staff may borrow materials from other Connect NY libraries if
RIT Library does not own books or our library's copy is a checked-out.
Find out
more!
- Information Delivery Services (interlibrary loan)
If RIT Library doesn't have a book or journal article that you
need most likely we can get it for you thanks via our interlibrary
loan service provided by the Information Delivery Services (IDS)
department and requesting is all done online via IDS
Express.
- The ACCESS Card
Another service available to graduate students needing extensive
use of other participating libraries after RIT Library's resources
have been fully utilized and exhausted.
Cards are issued to a limited number of faculty, graduate students
and professional research staff members.
Those requiring specific titles or those engaged in short term
projects are referred to our interlibrary loan service.
Applications are to be made only after the resources of RIT have
been exhausted. Click
HERE to apply online.
ACCESS is a cooperative effort of area libraries, coordinated
by the Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC).
What Grad Assistants Need to Know About the
Library
This guide
(click here) is specifically written for the Graduate Assistant
asked to do library research as part of their GA assignment.
Maintained by: Linette Koren
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