Research Guides: Library Survival Guide for Faculty and Staff: Resources and Services

Library Resources at a Glance:

Find Books and Other Media
Links you to our online catalog, where you can search our print books, eBooks, audiobooks, and multimedia collections. You can search for them by using a keyword, title, author, or subject.
Find eBooks and Audiobooks
Links to our eBooks and Audiobooks guide, detailing all the databases at Wake Tech that offer eBooks and audiobooks.
Find Databases
Links to our list detailing all of the databases available to you through Wake Tech.
Find Specific Journals
Links to a webpage where you can search for specific titles available at Wake Tech. You can also browse our journals by subject.
Find Videos
Links to Films on Demand, one of our databases that has more than 21,000 video titles across a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, art, history, health and medicine, psychology and sociology.
Find Research Guides
Links to all of our research guides. Research guides are webpages maintained by the library that highlight resources related to specific subjects, courses, or degree programs. Let us know if you want one created for your course.
Request Materials
Links to a form for purchase suggestions.
PLEASE NOTE: the Library will not purchase materials already available at a different campus OR copies of course textbooks.

Library Services at a Glance:

Library Instruction
Links to our Library Instruction guide, which details how instruction from a Wake Tech librarian can benefit your classroom and students.
Library Reserves
Links to our Reserves guide, which will walk you through how to request an item on reserve for your course.
Research Appointments
Links to our reference request form. Select a specific campus, and set up your appointment from there. This service is also valuable for students working on research assignments.

Interlibrary Loan

Open the online catalog online catalog (opens in new window).
At the top of the page, you'll see a bar with a home icon, two drop-down menus, and a search bar. Pay attention to the leftmost drop-down menu, which looks like this:
Change the drop down menu selection from "Wake Libraries" to "Everything."
After you search for and find the item that you want from the list of results, click on the its title.
On the next screen, under the Select an Action dropdown menu, select the option that says Place Hold.
The next screen will prompt you for your identification. Type your 7-digit ID in the User ID box. Your PIN is 1234 unless you have changed it. (Leave the Alternate ID box blank.)
Select your pickup location. The "Wake" option refers to the Southern Wake Campus.
Click the Place Hold button. The next screen will verify your hold.
To request another item, go back to your list, or conduct another search and follow the same process.

Some materials, such as reference books and DVDs, may be unavailable for loan.