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Where to Find Materials in the CEAS Library

Where to Find Materials in the CEAS Library

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Type of Material

How to Access

Located

Books that are AVAILABLE in the library catalog

By call number

Stacks begin on the east side of the library (low stacks).  QA's are in the south stack area, and T's in the southwest stack area.

Books that are checked out in the library catalog

PLACE A REQUEST for the item through the library catalog. Track the status of the request in your online patron record.

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at Circulation Desk

Books in SW Depository or cataloged microfiche in CEAS storage

PLACE A REQUEST for the item through the library catalog. Track the status of the request in your online patron record.

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at Circulation Desk

Books that are available in OhioLINK

Use the REQUEST ITEM command to have the item sent to you at the CEAS Library. Track the status of the request in your online patron record.

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at Circulation Desk

Oversize (books)

Ask at the circulation desk

South closet in the Quiet Reading Room

Books not available in the library catalog or OhioLINK

Submit an interlibrary loan request through ILLiad

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at Circulation Desk

Reference books

By call number

East side of library around light well.

Reference indexes - electronic

Any networked computer with web browser, and CD-ROM stations in CEAS Library.

the library catalog, OhioLINK, and CD-ROM stations (see Self-Help Guides)

Reference indexes - paper

By call number

On Upper stacks level at north end

Reference Storage

Ask at the circulation desk

South closet in the Quiet Reading Room

Reserves - paper (CEAS Reserves or Reserves Perm)

LIBRARY USE ONLY or OVERNIGHT depending on the item

Ask at the CEAS Library Circulation Desk

Reserves - electronic

Through the Web.

Through the CEAS Library website, through the library catalog course reserves. Also check Textbooks Online.

Computer Manuals

Through the Web.

See Safari Tech Books Online.

Microfiche - DOE Reports 1980-1996

By DE number

Request at Circulation Desk

Microfiche - DOE/AEC Reports before 1980

By report number

Request at Circulation Desk

Microfiche - NASA Reports

By N number

Ask for assistance at Circulation Desk. Microfiche Cabinets - south wall or online

Microfiche - Gov Docs

By SuDoc number

Ask for assistance at Circulation Desk. Microfiche Cabinets - south wall or online

Microfiche - Other

By microfiche number (see microfiche list on top of cabinets)

Ask for assistance at Circulation Desk. Microfiche Cabinets - south wall

Microfilm

By microfilm call number (see microfilm list on top of cabinets)

Ask for assistance at Circulation Desk. In microfilm cabinet in southeast corner of library.

Technical Reports not in the library catalog e.g., AEC, DOE, older NASA, NACA,

Fill out the online request form on the CEAS Library website.

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at the CEAS Library Circulation Desk

CD-ROMs / DVDs

By call number or by SuDoc number

In the CD-ROM cabinet located on southeast corner of library. Many can be used on CD-ROM Station #2.

Videotapes / DVDs

Via the library catalog

Southeast corner of library, and Langsam Library

Journals: Current Issues

Alphabetically by TITLE

Quiet Reading Room

Journals: 1985 - present

By call number (Check the library catalog item records for volume information)

Upper Level (many are online)

Journals: before 1985 (in storage at SW Depository)

Request a volume through the library catalog. For an article place a request through ILLiad.

You will be notified when the volume arrives, or when the article is posted on the web.

Journals: electronic

Through the Web.

See Full Text Journals.  Most online journals are also searchable by title through the library catalog.

Articles in journals NOT available at UC

Fill out the ILLiad request form

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up the item at the CEAS Library Circulation Desk

Engineering Masters Theses: 2000 to 2002

By call number

Upper level, north end.

Engineering Masters Theses: before 2000 (in SW Depository)

Request the item through the library catalog. Track the status of the request in your online patron record.

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED by email, pick up item at the CEAS Library Circulation Desk

Engineering PhD Theses: all available online

Use Electronic Theses and Dissertations for recent years or Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global for years back to 1955.

Print copies before 2004 are at the SW Depository. These can be requested through the library catalog with pick-up at the CEAS Library Circulation Desk (check Proquest for online version).

Theses NOT available at UC

First check Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global and NDLTD.  If not found, then submit an interlibrary loan request through ILLiad

AFTER YOU ARE NOTIFIED, pick up the item at the CEAS Library


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