Jason Neal, librarian for CSE, is available to help with your information needs. He can provide you and your students with the following services:

• Teach library instruction sessions to enhance students' research skills. These can be tailored for classes, research groups, small class groups, or individual students. You may request a session by contacting CSE librarian Jason Neal, or fill out the Library Instruction Request Form.
  
  

• Meet with you personally to discuss how UTA Libraries can more effectively fulfill your research and instructional needs. 
  
  

• Develop course-specific web pages.
  
  

• One-on-one reference assistance.

For more information, contact him by e-mail or telephone (817-272-2698).

Assistance with Distance Learning Classes 

If you will be teaching a distance learning class during the coming semester, CSE librarian Jason Neal (817-272-2698) can develop a webpage specifically tailored for your course needs. It can include links to individual online articles for course readings, relevant websites, instructions for accessing library databases from off-campus, and more.

Reminders for Fall Semester

To help us serve you and your students better, below is a checklist of library-related reminders for the coming semester:

• Librarian contact information: 
  In case students have questions related to library research and services, include CSE librarian Jason Neal's name and contact information on print and online class syllabi.
  
  
• Assignments: 
  Inform CSE librarian Jason Neal about research assignments in your classes. This will help the library anticipate and meet students' needs more easily.
  
  
• Reserves: 
  Please allow approximately one week for print and electronic reserve items to be processed.  This will give us enough time to handle reserves so that they conform to copyright policy. You may use either the print or online course reserves form. For more information, contact SEL Reserves Coordinator Donna Kelley at 817-272-1418.
  
  
• Renewals: 
  Library materials checked out to faculty are due by 31 August 2003. If you would you like to keep them another semester, you may renew them online or by phone (817-272-5050). Please remember that you may not renew materials that have been renewed four times, or that someone else has requested.

Purchase Requests

You may submit purchase requests for books or journals to librarian Jason Neal. Even if you don't know specific titles, you may also inform us of subject deficiencies you have noticed in our collection. We try to fulfill as many requests as possible, but there are a few that we might not be able to fulfill. Along with budgetary considerations, other disciplines also submit requests for books and journals. We have to decide which requests receive top priority. 

If you submit a request that we purchase something for the library, please consider the following:

• Courses and research that the item would support
  
  
• Intellectual content/subject matter of the item. Specialized books and journals that relate to teaching and research at UTA are more likely to be purchased than general items (see final paragraph for more details).
  
  
• Whether the item would have a low, steady, or high level of use
  

As always, cost is yet another factor we consider. This has become more important recently due to the statewide budgetary situation. In addition, prices for many journal subscriptions have increased by at least 10%. Nevertheless, a good justification based on the criteria listed above can work in favor of purchasing an item. 

For a variety of reasons, we generally do not purchase textbooks. We consider financial and space restrictions so that we can purchase more specialized materials that support UTA courses and research. Also, unlike more specialized books and journals, students will more likely purchase textbooks for themselves. However, we do make exceptions if very little else is available on a topic. In addition, if you have a personal copy of a textbook, you may place it on reserve for student use.