Faculty Services
UMW Libraries provide a wide variety of services to faculty. Faculty members are encouraged to contact the Subject Librarian/Faculty Liaison assigned to their department or college with questions related to the Libraries’ collections, services and policies or for research assistance.
- Course Reserves: Faculty may place course materials on reserve at Simpson Library by completing the course reserve request form.
- Digitization Request: The library offers limited digitization services within the bounds of copyright restrictions. To request scans for personal use or to be uploaded to Canvas for classroom instruction, complete the digitization request form.
- Eagle Scholar: Submit your professional work for preservation in UMW’s open access institutional repository.
- Interlibrary Loan: Use UMW Libraries’ ILL service to request materials from other libraries.
- Library Instruction: Reference librarians are available to provide course-specific research instruction to your classes. Contact your liaison librarian for details.
- Open Educational Resources (OER): Locate free and low-cost alternatives to traditional, expensive course materials.
- Purchase Requests: Suggest an item for addition to the library collection. You can also browse book reviews from the Choice Reviews database. To suggest titles for purchase, you can 1) use the purchase request form, 2) email titles to your library liaison, or 3) create an account with the Choice database to save items to a list and then add your library liaison as a user of that list when you’re finished.
- Library Proxies: Designate a proxy to conduct library business on your behalf. Any current UMW student or employee can serve as a proxy.
