CLASSICS OFFICE
HOURS
September 1 through May 31
Weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
June 1 through August 31
Tuesdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
CONTACT
Herta Pitman
Department Coordinator
Office: Old Main, room 311
Tel# (651)696-6376
Email: pitman@macalester.edu
Fax (651)696-6498
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Answers
to New Faculty FAQs
Book orders
Electronic reserves
Paper reserves
Reading Packets
Classroom media projectors
About your phone line
Housing
Visit Macalester's Center for Scholarship and Teaching's "Resources
for New Faculty" Page.
BOOK ORDERS
Fall text orders are due by mid-April.
Spring text orders are due by early November.
You may place your order by contacting Carey Starr at
phone# 651-699-6169 or e-mail starr@macalester.edu.
There are forms which Carey will send you if you contact her,
or you can just place your order without the form.
You'll need to provide:
Your name, the course name, the course number, the enrollment
limit, your contact information, the title, author and publisher. ISBNs
are helpful.
ELECTRONIC RESERVE READINGS
We have an on-line texts system provided by our library. They
call it "electronic reserve." The advantages (over reading
packets) are that there is no cost to students (because students can,
and do, print these out for free), and you do not need to have your plans
finalized so far in advance. These chapters are made available at the "electronic
reserve" location of the library's web site and are easily accessible
to off-campus students.
The disadvantages are that you'd need to provide the library
with photocopies of the front and back of the title page and the chapter
pages (you can make these in our office) at least two weeks before the "read
by" date; and you may not use more than one chapter from any book
or article from any journal, unless our library owns the publication. If
our library owns the material it can be placed on e-reserve without restriction.
There is another restriction about repeated use that isn't an issue in
the case of new faculty, because you haven't used e-reserves here before.
The library has a copyright permission service that they use to seek, and
pay for, permission for materials deemed not in fair use. Permission can
take up to 30 days.
You can view more about e-reserves on our library's web site
at www.macalester.edu/library/resources/reserves/submit.html
You can access the electronic reserve form at
http://www.macalester.edu/library/resources/reserves/requestform.pdf
Copyright information can be found at www.macalester.edu/library/copyright
Ask me, or Janet Sietman 651-696-6545 in the library, for help
with placing e-reserves.
This is how you get to e-reserves:
1. Go to the library home page at http://www.macalester.edu/library/
2. Click on "Reserve & E-Reserve Collections & Info"
3. enter prof name or course and hit search
4. click on correct search result
5. click on reading title.
6. read
OFFICE OPTIONS FOR ELECTRONIC RESERVE READINGS
I also do some document scanning and electronic-reading-file
projects when documents are needed on shorter notice, when
it's a repeated use, or when there are additional chapters
from the same source document
and the library doesn't own it. These PDFs
are then sent to you as attachments to e-mail and you can then provide them
to your students via e-mail or through the Moodle web-based course management
system.
We like to have two weeks as well, but can usually complete
the project more quickly (especially if we have not received
a bunch of urgent work from multiple professors).
BOOK/PAPER RESERVE READINGS
The library will hold books/paper copies at the desk for students
in your classes. You provide the library with a form (I have these) and
the book pulled from the shelf or in some cases your book or photocopy
and your students can check them out in two-hour increments.
Some of our professors do a version of this with readings that
are kept in a file cabinet in the history office. Students only have access
to these readings when the office is open though.
READING PACKETS
It is also possible to put together reading packets. This method
is rarely used. Our department would pay the charges for the fees and
printing in advance, but you would have to collect payments from the
students for the packets in the when classes begin. This process needs
to be started early and costs can run quite high. Arrangements for this
need to be made with Document Services, 651-696-6226
MEDIA PROJECTORS
Many of the classrooms have an LCD media projector. In addition,
Old Main has an IBM laptop (running Windows XP) and a portable LCD projector
that is for shared use among the faculty and staff of Old Main and is
meant for use only in classrooms. This equipment is stored in a locked
cabinet in the Classics/History office. The equipment is used every day
by various faculty and staff and will need to be pre-reserved using the
sign-up sheet in the office, and returned to the cabinet in the Classics/History
office after each use.
PHONE EXTENSION AND VOICE MAIL
You will receive a document from Telecommunications that includes
your voice mail box number, password and directions for initiating and
accessing your voice mail box.
HOUSING
Macalester's "High Winds" office has housing
rental options for incoming Staff/Faculty. They are also
able to assist new employees moving into our area with neighborhood
research, and information about Macalester programs and options
for purchasing a home. Macalester has rental housing that
is all very close to campus with options from one bedroom
apartments to single-family homes. High Winds phone number
is 651-696-6552.
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