Faculty Support

The St. Kate's Research and Instruction Librarians are happy to assist in a variety of ways, from helping you create reading lists or assignments for your course, to coming into classes to help with information literacy instruction, to helping with your own scholarship. Librarians are happy to meet in-person or virtually. Expand any of the areas below to see more about how we can help, and feel free to contact your subject librarian to see how we can assist you further.

Support for Instruction

Librarians are happy to come into your classes, either in person or virtually. See our Library Instruction page for more information about what is available and how to schedule sessions.

The St. Kate’s Library has developed a Textbook Collection for student usage. This service helps offset student expenses as a part of the library's commitment to textbook affordability. The Library’s Textbook Collection attempts to include at least one copy of any required textbook in either print or electronic format. Electronic books (Ebooks) are accessible with a St. Kate’s login; print books are available for in-library use only. For more information affordable materials, see our Affordable Textbooks and Course Materials Guide.

What are Reading Lists?

Give Students Easy Access to Library Resources

Course Reading Lists are integrated with Canvas and enable faculty to easily create, maintain, evaluate, and share lists of materials. Reading Lists replace the course reserves process that has been used in the past.

You can assemble materials of all types into your reading list -- physical books, ebooks, journal and newspaper articles, websites, and streaming media including YouTube videos, podcasts, TED Talks, and more. You can build lists by yourself or collaborate with your subject librarian.

For more information, visit:

Course Reading Lists Guide

Subject Librarians

The St. Kate's Librarians have developed Student Learning Outcomes at the undergraduate level for Information literacy, the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning. Librarians lead and support efforts to integrate information literacy into and throughout the curriculum and student experience through campus-wide partnerships. For more information about our SLO's and how to integrate them into your curriculum, check out our Information Literacy Student Learning Outcomes Rubric or contact your Subject Librarian.

If you want to offer students links to many resources, consider using a Course Reading List (see section above).

But if you just need to save a URL for yourself, or send single items, then you're looking for a permanent link. Some of our databases make it easy to get links to items, but in others you'll want to add the EZProxy prefix information.

Finding Permanent Links in Databases

Many databases give you access to a permanent link to the article. Sometimes referred to as a persistent link, permalink, Document URL, or Bookmark URL, Library Databases provide these permanent links differently. Some examples:

In LibSearch, click on the title of an item and under the Send To section you'll see the Permalink. (Here's a screenshot showing this)
In EBSCO databases, you want to click on the article title and then look under the Tools on the right for the Permalink. (screenshot showing this)
In ProQuest databases, you want to click on the Abstract/Details page of an article and scroll down to find the Document URL. (screenshot showing this)
In Films on Demand, below the video click the Embed/Link link and then you'll see the Record URL. (screenshot showing this.)

Contact your Subject Librarian for more help linking to other articles in library databases.

EZProxy Prefix

If you can't locate the permanent link, or if you want to link to the full database and not just one article, you can add the EZProxy prefix to a link. Off-campus access to library resources is made possible by our EZproxy server, which authenticates users through a login/sign on. If you want to share a link with other people at St. Kate's, make sure the URL includes the EZproxy prefix for users outside of the St. Kate's on-campus network:

https://pearl.stkate.edu/login?url=

For example, the URL for accessing JSTOR is:

https://pearl.stkate.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor...

For more help with EZProxy prefixes, see our off-campus guide, or contact our Systems Librarian, William Straub.

Off Campus Access to Library Resources

Support for Research and Scholarship

Don't struggle with research. Ask a librarian for help!

Librarians are available to help both students and faculty throughout the research process - from helping a student get started with their research paper, to assisting faculty with the scholarly publishing process.

Research Help for Faculty

Research librarians want to partner with you to help you in and outside the classroom. We can:

Help you design research assignments and digital scholarship projects
Support you in the use of citations managers like Zotero and Mendley
Answer basic questions about copyright, fair use and Creative Commons license
Help navigate publishing options, including depositing scholarly works into Sophia, our institutional repository

Librarians are available to support faculty, staff, and students with copyright decisions by sharing resources to help guide decisions around fair use, scholarly publishing, and creative works.

St. Catherine University Copyright Policy

St. Catherine University Intellectual Property Policy

For more information on fair use and copyright, please reach out to your subject librarian, or email us at library@stkate.edu.