Access to Library Services

Your ISUCard
Your ISUCard serves as a photo ID and determines borrowing privileges for library materials. The number on your ISUCard and a Library pin# validate your eligibility for remote access of many library services.

Library pin#
You must be a valid Library user, with a valid registered email address to be able to use this online form to set your Library pin#. Your ISUCard and this pin# are required for remote access of library services.

Remote Access
When requesting library services remotely, you must provide your ISUCard number and 4-digit Library pin#, which ensures additional security. Your ISUCard and Library pin# allow you to access the University Library catalog, many subscription databases, some e-journals and e-books, and other services from off-campus.

Links to the basics

Ask a Librarian
Your options for research assistance in the library, and for online / remote users.

Circulation Information
Checkout policies, renewals, recalls, searches, fines and other services provided for you.

Computers in the Library
All public computers in the University Library system provide access to the e-Library, the Internet, MS Office, FileZilla, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Adobe Reader, JMP, and WinZip. All computers have USB ports and either CD/ROM or DVD/ROM drives. Check here for get more information.

Course Reserve
Reserve provides books, audio-visual and non-print materials assigned by ISU instructors as supplemental, required course work. Instructors can use online submission forms to initiate reserve lists for their classes.

Courses A-Z
Courses A-Z is a list of all the current ISU courses that have materials available for ISU faculty, staff and students via Reserve and Instruction Library Guides.

Dissertations & Theses
Provides access to abstracts and citations to United States and selected foreign dissertations published since 1861. The database can be searched by subject, author, title and other methods useful for finding dissertations.

Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery
Providing ISU students, faculty, and staff access to materials that are not available in the ISU Library collections.

Library Guides
Course-specific guides from the current semester; Getting Started with Research guides in your subject area, plus Information Literacy and instruction guides.

Library Instruction Videos
The Library at Iowa State University offers a variety of seminars and workshops for the ISU community each fall and spring semester. Video episodes of past seminars are available.

Subject librarians
Your primary contacts to learn about library collections and research databases in your subject areas, instructional support for your classes, and reference services. Browse the list to find and contact your Subject librarian today!

RSS Feed
Subscribe to the library RSS feed to get current information.

Popular Places at Parks

Bookends Café

Group Study Rooms
Request at Circulation Desk, first-come, first-served

Learning Connection Center (LCC)

Copiers

Multi-Media Production Studios
PC & MAC, audio-visual, print, and web software, and flatbed scanners

Presentation Practice Room

Scanners
Free, large-format, save to flash or e-mail.

Media Center
Maps, Microforms, Media (including leisure collection of movies, music, etc.), Reserves

Research Study Rooms

Quiet Study
The Periodical Room is the quiet study area in Parks.