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Service Hours & Contacts | Accessing the Building | General Services | Computing Checkout |Faculty Support | Library Updates | Campus Updates and Resources

 

Last updated September 23, 2020

Service Hours & Contacts

The library building is currently closed. Remote service is currently available as follows:

  • Mondays – Thursdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Service contacts:
WOU library staff are online and available to answer questions:
online chat
phone 503-838-8418
text message 503-383-WOU1 (9681)
email libweb@wou.edu

Accessing the Building

Beginning September 28, 2020, Hamersly Library will be open to WOU students, faculty, and staff, with limited occupancy. A WOU ID card is required for entry and exit. If you are without your card, the entry door sign has a QR code. Scan it with your mobile device to bring up your barcode.*

Building hours will be:

  • Monday-Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Saturday-Sunday: closed

The 24-Hour computer lab will also be open with limited seating.

Face Coverings, Food & Drink Policies

Pursuant to Oregon’s and WOU’s relevant mandates for common indoor spaces, face coverings are required throughout Hamersly Library. The single exception is within the Video and Audio production studios.

While Oregon and WOU have a face coverings requirement in place, eating and drinking are not allowed in the library. 

 

Entry and Directional flow

Building entry is on the west side, the Monmouth Ave. entrance. Keep to the right; the left-hand set of doors on that side are for exiting traffic. Scan your barcode as you enter the lobby area.*

The lobby and the stairs from 2nd to 3rd floor are marked with directional signage. 

Spaces (what's open)

 

Study rooms and conference rooms not available at this time. 

The Video and Audio Production studios are available by reservation only and limited to one user per day.

The Press is closed. 

Tables have double-sided signs Clean / Please clean. When you are finished using a table, turn the sign to “Please clean” so that staff know to sanitize it for the next user.

Collections Access & Borrowing

Request materials through Primo: Staff will pull materials and either mail them or hold them for pickup at Hamersly, according to your request. Curbside pickup is available, or you can come to the Checkout Desk.  

 

Self-retrieval of materials:  Most collections are open to patrons. A few collections are closed to the public: Juvenile Fiction, Oregon AIM, and K-12 Curriculum. If you need items from those collections, use the request option. 

 

Do not reshelve materials If you handle an item and decide not to borrow it, leave it on a reshelving cart or an empty table. We will quarantine it prior to reshelving. 

 

Equipment General equipment such as cameras are not currently available. Computing and accessories to support remote learning are available from the Checkout Desk, or through mail or curbside pickup.

*Purpose and Privacy: Scanning allows us live occupancy counts for the building, and it provides an attendance record to help contact tracing efforts, if needed. Collected data is limited to V-number, date and timestamp. Its use is limited to contact tracing purposes, and it is stored in a secure file. Personally-identifiable data is  purged after 30 days. 

General Services & Current Status

  • Access to digital resources
    Databases, ebooks, online journals, campus network drives, and specialized programs.
  • Librarian consultations
    Each subject has a librarian with specialized knowledge of resources in that field. Email for help or request a chat appointment.
  • Scan and Delivery access to print resources in the library*
  • Lending of general equipment (such as DSLR cameras, etc.) is suspended. See below for hotspots and computing equipment necessary for conducting online coursework.
  • Summit requests have resumed.
  • Interlibrary Loan requests for digital copies of journal articles and book chapters are accepted, although you should expect delays. Requests for hard-copy books and media requests are suspended.
  • Due dates are extended and overdue fines are waived during the pandemic.

Computing checkout

We loan computing equipment needed to conduct coursework online. As with all other materials available from the library, there is no expense to borrow any of this equipment. The loan will last all of Fall term.

Wi-Fi Hotspots: For Fall 2020, students must be eligible for Pell Grant or Tuition-Equity to borrow a hotspot, confirmed by WOU’s Office of Financial Aid. Students who live in WOU Housing are not eligible for hotspot borrowing. 

Other equipment loans are not subject to confirming financial need. 

Computing Equipment Request form

Can’t access the form? You must be logged into your WOU email to fill it out. If it still doesn’t work, use this link.

Available Equipment

Chromebooks

Please note that Chromebooks require nearly constant internet access.

Dell desktop PCs

In addition to the PC, a monitor, keyboard, mouse and cables are included. No wireless cards installed. These must be connected with ethernet cable (included). If you have a WiFi router at home, you can plug the ethernet cable into it. 

iMacs

Each includes keyboard, mouse, and cables. Wireless card installed. *iMacs cannot be mailed and must be borrowed and returned in person.

iPads and iPad Minis

While iPads are optimized in a wireless network, many apps work very well while not connected.

  1. Recent standard iPad models
    Come with a keyboard and Apple Pencil. We have 9 iPad kits with Pencil available. 
  2. Older standard iPad models
    These come with a keyboard. The iOS can no longer be updated on these and so some apps currently in the App Store are not compatible; however, testing typical Moodle content (on both the Moodle App and through the browser) showed no problems.  
  3. Recent iPad Minis
    iPads only; no peripherals. 
Webcams

USB

Headsets with microphone

USB

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