Welcome to Buswell Library! This guide will help you utilize the materials, people, and other resources available from Buswell Library to support your learning and scholarship.
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Professor Gregory Morrison Professor Steve Oberg
Professor Cathy Troupos |
Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) is a powerful search tool to use in addition to the library's database, and with Scholar's "library links" feature you can link seamlessly to the library's print and electronic resources.
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Access databases by discipline or title via the link ("Research Databases) on the library web site.
Don't see the full text? Look for the "find it" button. "Find it!"...
... searches Wheaton's access to full text in other databases.
... gives you the opportunity to place an ILLiad/interlibrary loan.
Don't see the full text? Use the "find it!" button,
The "Find it!" button...
... searches Wheaton's access to full text in other databases.
... gives you the opportunity to place an ILLiad/interlibrary loan request.
Add your program and status in the note field, "e.g. Off-campus student in ELIC program."
If you have a citation, use the Citation Search, found on the articles tab on the library home page to use "Find it!" to look for full text.
If you need help, contact interlibrary.loan@wheaton.edu.
The library collection contains a large number of e-books. Search using the search box on the library home page. When your results screen is displayed, use the facets on the left side to limit to ebooks.
The library will also scan a book chapter of a print book in our collection.
If you are in a database:
Use the "Find it" to request the item through ILLiad. Add your program and status in the note field, "e.g. Off-campus student in ELIC program."
If you have a citation:
The chapter will then be scanned and sent to you as a digital copy. If you need help contact interlibrary.loan@wheaton.edu,
If Buswell does not have a copy of the book with the chapters you need, you can order it through I-Share or ILLiad and then request specific chapters to be scanned and sent as a digital copy. Additional details and instructions are on the library web site.
If a student is more than 50 miles from Buswell or an Illinois I-Share library (Map of I-Share libraries), Buswell will mail books from Buswell's print collection and books obtained from I-Share/ILLiad libraries to a United States postal address at no cost to the student. The student will be responsible for the cost of mailing books back to the library. Additional details.
Buswell Library belongs to a consortia of Illinois academic libraries called I-Share. As a member you can:
Visit any Illinois I-Share library and check out books using your Wheaton ID. Map of I-Share libraries.
Return any books you checked out from Buswell Library at any I-Share library.
Request books owned by other i-Share libraries to be delivered to another i-Share library near your location.
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