Faculty Resources: Faculty Resources

How to Connect Google Scholar to Park Library

How to find eBooks

How to Access the NYT, WSJ, Kanopy, Films on Demand

Welcome to the Faculty Library Guide!

Keep scrolling for a summary of library services, or use the webpage menu to jump right to your topic of interest.

Personal Consultations with a Librarian

• Learn about library services and subscriptions
• Find out how to organize your research using Zotero citation management system
• Meet via Teams or Zoom
• Email your librarian or library@park.edu to get started

Instruction Services for your classes

• Help your students learn critical college-level research skills
• Request library instruction customized to your specific course needs
• Modalities include synchronous or asynchronous, online or in-person
• Submit a request here.

Library Subject Guides

Visit the Library Guides to find discipline-specific resources for your own research and your students’ research projects and papers. We welcome feedback on the guides and want to know how we can tailor them for your department’s needs.

Course Guides

Library guides tailored to specific courses are available upon request. These guides can contain infographics, instructional videos, and links to library resources specific to individual courses. For an example, see the EN 106 Class Page. If you regularly have assignments that utilize specific library resources, or have a research intensive course, your class may benefit from a course guide.

Library materials to use in your classroom or Canvas shell

• Over 250,000 eBooks available
• Access to 160+ databases for general as well as subject-specific research
• Streaming video including Kanopy and Films on Demand
• Primary Sources
• Case Studies
• Get help Finding Affordable and Open Educational Resources (A/OER)
• A Smarter Searching Guide to help students learn the basics of library research
• And now board games – if you would like a specific board game purchased that you may use in the classroom for an activity, please let us know.

Interlibrary Loan

Can't find the full-text of an article or book? Just visit the Interlibrary Loan page to fill out the journal article request or the book request. 

Huddle Rooms & Quiet Study Area

You can reserve our collaborative study rooms, located on the library’s first floor, or enjoy Norrington's new second floor quiet study area.

Leisure Reading

Looking for leisure reading materials? We have a popular reading collection with recently published non-fiction and fiction items located on the library’s 1st floor.

The Chronicle

Stay current with the higher education field by keeping up with The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Contact Us

Connect with us by sending us a question, email, chat, scheduling a 1:1 Zoom session with a librarian, phone (816-584-6285), or visiting us in person in the Norrington Center on the Parkville campus. We also invite you to subscribe to library updates via Twitter or Instagram.