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Gary Library offers great ways to ensure you get the resources you need, even though are off campus and far away. Now you can request books directly from the online catalog, making getting books sent to you a whole lot easier.

To find out how, check out the tutorial on requesting books.

You can still request books via email, phone, or the online request form. To expedite your request, please be sure to include your name and ID# as well as the author, title, and call number of the book(s). But try out the new online request feature and see how easy it is! You no longer need to worry about including all that information, as it will do it automatically.

You must be registered with the library to use the direct request feature (and to check out books!), so give us a call (802.828.8747 or 888.828.8557 x.8747) or fill out the registration form first. Please keep in mind that filling out the registration form does not give you immediate access to MyAccount features in the online catalog; we need time to process your registration. For faster service give us a call and we can add you immediately.

Found a book or article you really want, but that the Gary Library doesn’t own? Request an interlibrary loan through ILLiad and we will borrow it for you from another library. Interlibrary Loan is a cooperative venture between UI&U’s Gary Library and other libraries to give you access to materials that we do not have available here at the library. You may request items such as books, journal and newspaper articles and microfilmed materials.

If you are not entirely sure how to place an ILL request in our electronic system, check out these new video demonstrations on how to use ILLiad:

• ILLiad Registration and Log in Instructions
• How to Request resources
• How to pick up electronically received articles
• How to renew books

Not sure how to use RefWorks? Learn how to register, add references, export citations, and create bibliographies by watching some new video demonstrations!

Coming soon to the Use RefWorks page, and available now at:

• Register With RefWorks
• Add References Manually
• Export Citations from a Database
• Create Bibliographies

RefWorks is a bibliographic management service that permits users to create a database of references. References can then be used in writing papers. In-text citations and bibliographies are automatically formatted with the click of a button in a citation style of your choosing. Try RefWorks today and see how much easier it makes paper writing!

If you don’t have time to wait for books to get sent to you, need some more resources for your bibliography, or just want something to read online, don’t forget to search in ebrary.

ebrary’s Academic Complete collection includes subject-specific academic database collection in Business &
Economics, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences and Social & Behavioral
Sciences. Some other highlights of ebrary include:

• Growing online collection of over 14,000 full-text and other authoritative documents.
• Includes over 1,050 maps of academic interest (historic, geopolitical, etc.) not found in other subject specific collections.

Here are the first few steps you need to take to read books online:

1. Download the ebrary Reader if it’s not already installed on your machine.
2. Create a Personal Bookshelf to automatically save highlights, notes, and bookmarks.
3. Conduct a simple or advanced search by key word, full-text, publisher or author. Use Boolean or proximity. Click on a book jacket to open it. To return to your search results click on the Search Tab.
4. Navigate to each occurrence of your search term, flip through pages, go to specific page numbers.
   Use InfoTools to link to more information in the library or on the web. Activate InfoTools by selecting words of interest with your mouse, then use the InfoTools pull down menu.
5. Copy and print with automatic citations that include a URL hyperlink back to the source.

Check out these Gary Library resources for information on Black History and join in on the celebrations of Black History Month (February). Indicates MyUnion Id and password required to access resource.

• Credo Reference-Black Firsts Readers will revel in the stories of barrier-breaking pioneers in all fields-arts, entertainment, business, civil rights, education, government, inventing, journalism, religion, science, sports, and more.

• The Oxford Companion to Black British History Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, this online resource explores the subject from its beginnings in Roman times to the present day.

• The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature This abridged and updated edition presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, and 150 plot summaries of major works.

• Primary Sources in U.S. History Authoritative African American history resources.

• Find even more resources and links from the Diversity Issues Subject Guide.

• And check out UI&U’s 2008 Black History Month Web site.