Research Guides: Distance Learning Services at Preston Library: Home

Welcome!

Please use this guide to access Preston Library's Distance Learning Services related to our current operations and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including updates to operations, access to distance learning services, and other helpful resources.
Preston Library is now open to VMI Faculty, Staff and Cadets.
For questions or concerns, please contact us at: Library@vmi.edu

For Cadets:	For Faculty:
Research & Consultation opportunities: Have a question about citations or finding sources for your paper? Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu Meet With Us via Zoom - click here to make an appointment	Instruction opportunities: Need a Librarian to teach research skills to you or your cadets? Request Instruction via this form Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu

For Cadets:

For Faculty:

Research & Consultation opportunities:

Have a question about citations or finding sources for your paper?
Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu
Meet With Us via Zoom - click here to make an appointment

Instruction opportunities:

Need a Librarian to teach research skills to you or your cadets?
Request Instruction via this form
Email us - ReferenceDesk@vmi.edu

Library Hours of Operation January 21 – May 4, 2021

Monday – Thursday:      7:30am – 1:00am
Friday:                                  7:30am – 10:00pm
Saturdays                            8:00am – 10:00pm *
Sundays:                              10:00am – 1:00am

Revised: April 6, 2021

NOTE: VMI Faculty, Staff, or Cadet ID Card is required to enter Preston Library.

Hours for Spring FTX (Apr 9-13)

Fri, Apr 9                                                7:30am – 4:30PM
Sat, Apr 10                                             8:00am – 4:00pm
Sun, Apr 11                                            1:00pm – 10:00pm
Mon, Apr 12                                          7:30am – 7:00pm
Tues, Apr 13                                          Resume normal hours (7:30am – 1:00am)

Linking to Database Content
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Course Reserves
Faculty & Cadet access points for Course Reserves.

Reserves will continue to only be offered online. Preston Library will not have any physical items on course reserve this spring. The Library can provide ebooks and scans (within copyright law), but we will not have any DVDs or physical books on course reserve for checkout.

Course Reserves

FOR CADETS - Access Course Reserves

FOR FACULTY - Submit Course Reserves

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) returns to full service for the Spring Semester in support of our faculty, staff, and cadets. We are borrowing both electronic materials and physical items, such as books.

Books will be placed in quarantine for a few days upon arrival so expect minor delays in receipt of items.
Interlibrary loan items may be returned to the lobby of the library and placed on the book truck marked for return of library items.
If you have any questions, please send inquiries to illiad@vmi.edu.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
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Preston Library offers subscriptions to the following streaming services:

Kanopy
Coverage: 1900 - present
Large selection of streaming videos, including documentaries and feature films for the humanities and social and natural sciences.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package
Coverage: Varies.
Streaming video service of almost 26,000 full length videos of high-quality educational titles. Subject sets featured include: business & economics, humanities & social sciences, science & mathematics, health & medicine. This collection also includes thousands of video segments and a collection of archival films & newsreels. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark segments, create and share playlists. Most videos available with closed-captioning and interactive transcripts and may be viewed through most mobile devices.

We also offer ebook resources:

Ebook Central
Coverage: varies by publication
EBooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers in a variety of subjects including: business, health & medicine, history, literature & language, and science & technology.

Unlimited simultaneous use of these academic eBooks that encompass many subjects. You may read on your screen, or, with Adobe Digital Editions, download chapters.
eBook Academic Collection
Coverage: 1800 - present
More than 130,000 ebook titles representing a broad range of subject matter from leading university presses and academic publishers. Subject coverage includes the arts, business and economics, education, language arts, literary criticism, political science, religion, social sciences, and other academic fields.

Search for scholarly articles, journals, books, and more:

JSTOR
Coverage: Typically, 4 years behind current date.
Articles from over 2,600 scholarly journals and 62,000 ebooks in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Databases A-Z
Searchable alphabetical list of all of Preston Library's available databases.
Research Guides
These research guides are organized by subject. If there was a guide specifically made for your class then click on the subject link and then click one of the left side tabs to navigate to your course guide.