Faculty Services

Faculty Guide to Forsyth Library

Explore this guide to Forsyth Library materials and services for on-campus faculty at Fort Hays State University

Library Liaisons

Liaisons provide a personal connection to facilitate communication and provide library services to academic departments and other FHSU stakeholders. Your liaisons will also keep you up to date with professional development events, database trials, and other library updates to support your teaching and scholarship.

Instruction Sessions for Library and Research Skills

Forsyth Library collaborates with educators to teach information literacy, research skills, and lifelong learning skills that students can transfer to other courses and apply beyond the University. Instruction sessions can be delivered in a variety of settings and formats, and are designed to fit the needs of the class and students. Request a session online through Forsyth Library Instruction Request form.

Online Tutorials for Library and Research Skills

Forsyth Library provides online guides, videos, and modules that cover a variety of information literacy skills including choosing and narrowing a topic, developing a research question, effectively searching library databases, and more. These can be used independently, assigned by an instructor, or embedded into a course. Collaborate with your liaison to design a customized tutorial to fit your needs, or browse one of our existing tutorials.

Open Educational Resources

Use this guide to learn about open educational resources (OERs), request a customized list of potential OERs for use in your course, learn to search for OERs yourself, or get help with Creative Commons Licensing. The FHSU OER web page also has more information about OERs.

Interlibrary Loan

If we don't have a book or article you need, you can request it via interlibrary loan (ILL) and we'll borrow it from another library for you.

Scholarly Communication

Get help with scholarly publishing, including formatting references, learning about bibliometrics, choosing a journal, reviewing a publication agreement, and uploading articles to the FHSU Scholars Repository.

Study Space

The Faculty Study Room, FL 017, can be reserved online. Ask at the Learning Commons Desk to get the access code. Conference rooms and other library spaces can also be reserved.

Copyright

Ask questions about the public domain, educational exceptions, licenses, fair use, requesting permissions, attributions, and using copyrighted readings in your courses.

Course Reserves

Make physical course materials available for students to borrow at the Learning Commons Desk. To place books or other physical materials on reserve for your course, please complete the Faculty Course Reserve Form and return it to Forsyth Library. To remove course reserve materials, complete the Faculty Reserve Removal Form.