Library Services     From Your Desktop    

Library Services

Circulation / Reserve Desk

During the academic year, the library is open almost 100 hours per week. During these hours you may check out books and reserve items at our circulation & reserve desk. Staff will explain our loan policies and help you locate the items you want to borrow. PhDs teaching classes can arrange to have material placed on reserve for their courses, in print or online format.

Instruction & Training

Reference staff offer a number of research workshops in the use of electronic resources. We also develop custom workshops to meet the needs of a particular course, subject, or department. These are described on our Workshop page. Request an Instruction session for you, your research team, or your course.

Research Assistance and Consultations

We will provide reference consultations, by appointment, in the library or in your office, and we will highlight information resources you can access from your desktop.In addition, we staff our reference desk Monday - Thursday, 10am - 9pm, and Friday, 10am-5pm, during the academic year and can handle walk-in, phone (255-3389), online, and e-mail requests for assistance on research and course projects.

From Your Desktop

These services are available to you from your office computer. Remote access from your home computer is also possible. If you need help using any of these services, please contact the Reference desk for support.

Cornell Library Catalog   Connect

• Search the collection of over 7 million books, periodicals, and databases owned by Cornell University Library. Via the catalog you may also renew your books and recall books checked out by other individuals.
  
  
• If an item you seek is not owned by Cornell, you may fill out our Purchase Request Form. While you await its arrival, you can borrow a copy owned by another University via Borrow Direct (provides access to the book collections of a small group of Ivy League universities with a 4-day delivery agreement) or Interlibrary Loan (accesses the book & journal article collections of much larger group of universities, with a 7-10 day delivery agreement).

Document Delivery

• Articles: Use the MyDocumentDelivery Pilot service to obtain PDF copies of articles, book chapters, and other materials from the Mann, Veterinary and Entomology Library collections. There is a fee for each request. It is anticipated that this service will become campus-wide.
  
  
• On-campus print materials: On January 22, 2004, the Library began to offer delivery of on-campus print materials for pickup at the Management Library (or any other campus library). Restrictions do apply, but the majority of books and related print items may be delivered via this new service. Accessible via the Library Catalog.
  
  
• Print materials not in Cornell collection:
  
  
  1. Borrow Direct provides access to the book collections of a small group of Ivy universities with a 4-day delivery agreement.
     
     
  2. Interlibrary Loan accesses the book & journal article collections of much larger group of universities, with a 7-10 day delivery agreement.

Find e-Journals   Connect

Databases   

• The Management Library has made it easy to access the top databases for business and management research by grouping them in our Top Business Databases (TBD) list. Access this list via the drop-down menu in the center of our homepage, browse the Top Business Databases by subject, or consult guides for several of these databases.
  
  
• Find Articles allows coss-database searching in a selected number of online resources. Connect
  
  
• Find Databases is an access point to most online resources of Cornell University Library. It provides active links to online services such as Econlit, PsycInfo, INSPEC, and NTIS. Connect