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Faculty
Arnold
Cremer
Cuffel on
leave of absence 2007-2008
Geistfeld
Hudson
Itzkowitz
Rachleff
Sichali
Tam
Weisensel
Wells
Staff
Pitman
Answers to FAQs for History faculty Not Currently Teaching
El-Kati
Fisher
Rosenberg, Norm
Solon
Stewart
How to Reach Former Faculty
History Department
1600 Grand Ave.
Old Main, Room 311
St. Paul, MN 55105
phone: 651-696-6493
fax: 651-696-6498
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Faculty
and Staff
FAQs
about:
BOOK ORDERS
ELECTRONIC RESERVE READINGS
BOOK/PAPER RESERVE READINGS
READING PACKETS
MEDIA PROJECTORS
PHONE EXTENSION AND VOICE MAIL
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
Copyright information can be found at www.macalester.edu/library/copyright.
Ask me, or Janet Sietman in the library (651-696-6545 or sietman@macalester.edu,
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 'reserves' under 'resources and collections'
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 PDF creation 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 for these projects 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.
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
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
All of the classrooms in Old Main and most classrooms on campus 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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