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Nearly all library services are available to distance students. You can:

• Get immediate help from a librarian via IM chat, phone, or email during Library hours, or make an appointment with a librarian
• Access Discovery search, databases, electronic journals, and eBooks. Some resources will prompt you to enter your TNU login
• Use our program and subject research guides to help you with assignments!
• Use Interlibrary Loan services, including electronic article delivery and books sent by mail
• Use citation tools (APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian) to help cite your sources for a paper
• Use RefWorks to build your own citations database and create bibliographies

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On the library homepage enter the article title into the Discovery search box. The article should be near the top of the result list. If it is available in the Waggoner Library collection you will see a button for View Full Text. If it is not available you will see an option to Request item through Interlibrary Loan.

If the article is NOT in the result list you can copy and paste the article title into Academic Search Ultimate or Google Scholar. This can verify that you have the title entered correctly. It will also show the article if it's available with full text. Remember to link to Trevecca holdings in Google Scholar to connect to our collections. Use Interlibrary loan if you are still not finding the article. 

IMPORTANT: Check Trevecca holdings BEFORE you request anything through ILL. You can get it immediately and not have to wait. Our Interlibrary Loan Service is for articles or books that are not freely available in Discovery or Google Scholar as full text. (Note: Learn how to link Google Scholar to Trevecca's library.)

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You can request items online through interlibrary loan in one of two ways:

1. Find the item in Discovery and click on its title to view the details. There will be a purple 'Request Item through Interlibrary Loan' button that you can click which will attach the item's information to your request, so that you don't have to type it out.

2. If the ILL request button for a title in Discovery is unavailable, use our online interlibrary loan form (you will need to type in the item details)

Please Note:  Your Trevecca email and the 11-digit Campus ID number from your ID card are both required on all ILL requests. Contact the library if you do not have your 11-digit campus ID number. If you have questions or need assistance, please call the ILL office (615-248-1338) or email us (ill@trevecca.edu).

Trevecca Alumni may apply for a Waggoner Library Card at the library services desk on the main floor. This card will allow you to check out books from the main collection and some materials from the Education Learning Commons (ELC) on the ground floor of the library.

Can alumni use the library databases? Due to database licensing agreements, remote access to databases, eBooks, and eJournals is not available for alumni. Alumni are welcome to come into the library to search databases. Please call 615-248-1570 for more information.

Yes, we have several reservable study rooms for groups and for individuals. All of our study rooms can be reserved.  All study rooms have at least one whiteboard wall. Dry erase markers can be checked out from the main circulation desk for use in the room.

If you are interested in making a reservation follow the link below to see the times available and to make the request. Click here

On the library homepage enter the book title into the Discovery search box. The book should be near the top of the result list. If it is available in the Waggoner Library collection you will see the shelving location for the print copy. If it is available as an eBook you will see a button for View eBook. If it is not available in either format you will see an option to Request item through Interlibrary Loan.

Yes, you can request delivery of items such as books and articles through Interlibrary Loan. Books are delivered to Waggoner Library within 5 to 7 working days; PDF files of articles are delivered via email, usually within 2-5 days. There is normally no charge for this service.

Look for the 'Request Item through Interlibrary Loan' link in the Discovery results to begin your request.

If you are searching in Discovery on the library home page and there is no full text for an article you will see an option for 'Request Item through Interlibrary Loan.'

If you found the article in another database, try to locate it in Discovery by searching for the title of the article. Click on the title and you should see a link to 'Request Item through Interlibrary Loan'.

If you can not find the article in Discovery, you can request it through interlibrary loan using our ILL form. Learn more about Interlibrary Loan.

Contact the library by phone, email, chat, or in person at the library services desk for assistance. Our contact information is here. 

There are many ways to get in touch with us! Call, email, text, chat, schedule an appointment, or video conference. Or stop by the library services desk on the main floor. All our contact information is here.

Peer-reviewed articles, also known as scholarly or refereed articles, are:

• Are written by experts in the field
• Are written for other researchers/scholars
• Are reviewed by the scholar's peers to determine whether they are high-quality pieces of work
• Use terms and language that are discipline-specific
• Usually include in-text citations and a bibliography of cited sources
• May include graphs, charts, etc., related to the topic
• Are published by a professional organization or society, university, research center, or scholarly press

Finding peer-reviewed articles

• Using a library database, or Discovery search on the library home page, you can limit your search to peer-reviewed articles by using the provided filters. The term 'Scholarly' or 'Academic' may be used in addition to 'Peer-Reviewed' as filtering options.

Learn if a journal is peer-reviewed

• Most databases have a link to individual journal information. Here you'll find if the publication uses a peer-reviewed process. 
• You can also check the publisher website to identify the type of publishing process. 

Your 11-digit campus ID is located on your Trevecca ID card. (Note: you may need to enter four 0's in front of the numbers on your ID card to equal 11 digits.) 

If you do no know your ID number, call (615) 248-1214 or click here to contact us via email, text, or chat.

The library has a variety of study options throughout the library for student study space needs: long tables, round tables, mediascapes, counters, couches, comfortable chairs and group study rooms are spread throughout the building. See our library spaces guide for more information.

No. Textbooks should be returned directly to Slingshot, which is housed in the mailroom on the library's main floor. Textbooks should never be returned to the library services desk or placed in the outside library dropbox.

Contact Trevecca Slingshot staff with mailroom or textbook questions:

• Call 615.248.1299 
• Email tnu@slingshotedu.com

Find more Slingshot information here: https://trevecca.slingshotedu.com

No, textbooks are ordered through Slingshot. Contact Slingshot by email or phone (615.248.1299) or visit them at the mailroom on the main floor of the library.

Occasionally you may find a book in the library collection that is used in a course, but this is not intentional.

The print collection of print dissertations is comprised almost exclusively of Trevecca granted dissertations. A list of Trevecca print dissertations can be viewed using the Discovery Search on the library homepage. 

Follow the steps:

• Type Trevecca dissertation in the search box and enter.
• Filter (narrow down) results by date range or subject.
• Click on the title of a dissertation to see if there is more than one shelving location.
• Most dissertations are also available online and you will see the Access Online option.
• Call numbers indicate shelving location. Ask at the Information Desk for directions to the shelving location of a dissertation. 

There are two methods to check our journal holdings.

First, many are available in our Discovery search which can be accessed using the following steps: 

1. From the library home page, select ‘Advanced Search’ above the search box.
2. Enter the journal title in the second search box, on the same line as the Title (ti:) search index.
3. Scroll down to the 'Filter by' section. In the Format pull-down menu select 'Journal, Magazine'.
4. Scroll down to select the Search button.
5. Journals available in print will show Trevecca's holdings in the Main Periodicals. If the journal is available online you will see an 'Access journal' button.

A second method, only relevant for electronic journals, is the following:

1. On the library home page, go to Find Information in the top menu and select 'E-journals by title'.
2. Enter the journal title in the first search box and select the Search button.
3. Select the correct title from the list (note there are sometimes multiple entries, so check all of them). 
4. On the results screen, one or more listings will appear, showing the database collection(s) containing the journal. Note the coverage dates for each listing.
5. Select a journal title link to access the content.

 

Present your TNU ID (serves as your library card) with the book(s) to the student worker at the library services desk on the main floor. They will check them out to you.

If you have not been issued a Trevecca ID card you will need to present a driver's license or photo ID for your library account to be accessed.

Yes, you can use the standup computer near the library services desk on the main floor for limited searching. Printing in not available.

Free guest Wi-Fi is available. Please check with the IT Help Desk staff in the library for assistance.

 

There is a Silent Study Room located on the top floor of the library where you can study with no distractions. You must use headphones or airpods for listening. No phone calls or group conversations permitted. The room is open during library hours.