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 liaison will also send you our quarterly faculty newsletter, The Library and U, to let you know about new services and databases, upcoming events, and other library news.
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.
Hours
Building Hours
Aug 19th - Nov 22nd
Mon – Thurs – 7:30am - midnight
Fri – 7:30am - 6pm
Sat – 10am - 5pm
Sun – Noon - midnight
*Closed Sat 11/23 & Sun 11/24 for Fall Break
*Closed Thurs 11/28 & Fri 11/29 for Thanksgiving
Research Help Hours
Aug 19th - Nov 22nd
Mon – Thurs – 8am - 9pm
Fri – 8am - 4:30pm
Sat – 10am - 5pm
Sun – Noon - 9pm
*Closed Sat 11/23 & Sun 11/24 for Fall Break
*Closed Thurs 11/28 & Fri 11/29 for Thanksgiving
Contact Us
Main Phone:
785-628-4434
Ask-A-Librarian:
http://libanswers.fhsu.edu/
Research Phone:
Call: 785-639-6180
Text: 785-527-9483
Email:
refserv@fhsu.edu
