Services for Faculty at Fraser Library (Surrey)

Faculty and students at SFU have access to over 2.5 million print and microform volumes and 2.9 million online items, including:

• 1,350,000 books and 170,000 ebooks
• 6,000 print and 63,000 ejournal subscriptions
• 500 databases, plus maps, data sets, slides, online images, films, DVDs and sound recordings.

• Browse research guides by your subject area
• Journal article indexes and databases in your areas of research
• Electronic journals by subject.
• Scholarly publishing
  • Learn about changes in academic publishing.
• Recommend materials for acquisition
  • Contact your liaison librarian or department representative.

  • Suggestions Welcome!

    The SFU Surrey Campus Library welcomes your suggestions of new books, journal subscriptions, and other material. We're also interested in hearing your recommendations for retrospective additions to the collection, and for acquisition of major new sources. Faculty input is one of the most important factors in helping us build our collections.

• Library instruction
  • Contact your liaison librarian if you would like your students to benefit from an in-person or online library research class, web guide or online tutorial.
• Reserve services for faculty
  • Books, photocopies, personal copies, online articles/websites
  • Lecture notes, overheads, quizzes, assignments...etc...
  • Making required readings available.
• Booking films for classroom viewing
  • SFU Surrey Campus Library has a growing collection of films on DVD and VHS. A collection of documentary, art and feature films in 16mm, VHS and DVD formats is available in the Media Resource Centre (formerly Media Collection)
    on the 3^rd floor of the Bennett library. Most of the titles in the film collection are licensed for non-theatrical public performance use at Simon Fraser University and may be booked for classroom viewing by SFU faculty,
    instructors and students.

    To book films for classroom showing, see the Film Bookings Guide.

    Contacts:
    Mirfat Habib, Booking Assistant (778.782.3116 / media@sfu.ca)
    Natalie Gick, SFU Surrey Campus Librarian (778-782-7417 / ngick@sfu.ca)

• Understanding and avoiding plagiarism online tutorial
  • An interactive online tutorial to help students learn to recognize plagiarism and develop skills to avoid it, such as correct citation of sources, note-taking, and paraphrasing. Contact Yolanda Koscielski to incorporate this tutorial into your WebCT courses.
• Exam bank
  • Library reserves hosts an online exam bank to make old exams available to students for study purposes.
  • Participation is voluntary and exams are retained in the Exam bank indefinitely.

• Reference Services
  • Faculty and students can receive in-person assistance from Reference Librarians at the SFU Surrey Library.
    Drop in to see us or call 778-782-7414).
  • See Ask Us for a complete listing of services and hours of reference serviced.
  • Faculty are welcome to contact liaison librarians for personalized assistance and encouraged to refer graduate students and research assistants for individual consultations regarding information sources and library research strategies.
• Interlibrary loan and document delivery
  • Free of charge.
  • Fulfillment in 3 to 14 working days and email notification.
  • Choose your pick up location.
• RefWorks
  • A web-based bibliography and citation database manager.
  • RefShare - post class reading lists, facilitate group work and exchange references.
• SFU Library LibX Browser Plugin
  • Easily search the SFU Library Catalogue and Google Scholar from within any web page
• Off-campus bookmarklet
  • Add this tool to your web browser to access SFU library resources without having to navigate the library's entire website.
• Current awareness services and tools.
  • New book reports.
  • RSS feeds and journal table of contents.
  • Alerts from publishers and databases.
• Canadian reciprocal borrowing agreement
  • Borrow books directly from another Canadian University Library.
  • Visit the Loans desk of any branch before visiting the remote location.
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR) on the web
  • Find the impact factor for your favourite journal.