Sacramento State University Library Tour

Complete list of services for faculty.

Connect with your subject librarian for personalized library service.

The library has hundreds of thousands of print books and access to millions of ebooks.

Faculty can borrow up to 100 items from the circulating collections for a year without needing to renew.

Request books, articles, media, and more using interlibrary loan services.

Librarians are available to provide tailored, engaging information literacy instruction to support the research needs of your course.

Faculty can request course-related material such as print books, e-books, and DVDs to be placed on course reserve.

The library has some funding for purchasing items for course reserves. Submit your request here ASAP.

How to use copyrighted materials (legally) in your classes.

Borrow physical media for classroom use and access streaming media.

There are 41 locked rooms available to tenure-track faculty, lecturers, and visiting scholars in the library. Please submit the linked form to apply.

A reservable space where faculty members may gather and work together.

This room is a dedicated reading room environment for faculty (current and emeritus). In addition to lounge seating options, the space includes a meeting table for discussion and collaboration that can accommodate up to 10 people at a time. The key is available for 4-hour checkout at the 1st floor service desk

The University Library Data | Technology Lab supports faculty in learning data analytics, artificial intelligence, and data visualization tools for research and teaching and provides hands-on training for implementing these technologies within specific disciplines.

Students, faculty, or staff can use this room to record, rehearse, and refine oral and multimedia presentations before presenting at a conference, in class, or an interview.

The University Library assists Sacramento State faculty with two levels of data management: 1. Helping with preparation of a Data Management Plan (DMP) for submission to a federal grant agency. 2. Management of generated data, whether part of a grant program or research initiative.

Get advice on intellectual property rights associated with academic publishing, help starting an online journal or get your existing journal into an online system, and more.

ScholarWorks is Sacramento State’s institutional repository: an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital works. It includes faculty publications, student theses and dissertations, and university special collections and archives.

The University Library is available to meet with individual and small groups to provide information about copyright, authors' rights, and publishing agreements. The team can also provide instruction or workshops to larger campus groups as needed. Email them at lib-scholars@csus.edu.