Get Library Help
If you need assistance with library sources or services, finding information for your project or class, identifying research tools or methods, you can contact your librarian, Wendi Arant Kaspar through a number of modes:
Email: warant@tamu.edu
Phone: 979-862-6310
I am taking in person appointments (with social distancing). Appointments can also be made to consult via Zoom or Skype.
Get Books, Videos...
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TAMU's library catalog (NEW)
Includes materials (books, journals, videos, documents and other materials) at Evans Library, Business Library & Collaboration Commons, the Medical Sciences Library, and Cushing Library as well as PSEL.
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WorldCat
Includes the holdings for over 14,000 research libraries around the world. If we do not own what you need, you can request materials through Get It for Me.
Get It For Me
You can set up a Get It For Me (Document Delivery Service) account to ask the library to:
- Scan up to 50 pages for items not already available electronically
- Request to borrow materials owned by other universities or research centers
- Get items delivered to PSEL from other campus libraries (can also be requested through our library catalog)
* The Libraries may send print materials through campus mail to faculty only. The Policy Sciences & Economics Library staff will also deliver library materials to patrons with offices or mailboxes in the Bush complex.
Get Organized
For term papers or extended projects, you may want to make use of bibliographic application that will help organize your research and citations, make them accessible via the web, share with teammates and generate bibliographies easily in established formats, integrating with MS Word.
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RefWorks
This web-based tool is available at no charge to TAMU students and accessible even after graduating. It is ideal for collecting, accessing, organizing, citing, and sharing citations including articles, books, websites, and more.
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EndNote
The application is free to TAMU students. Stores references to articles and books, allowing you to cite them in one of over 5,000 citation styles. The majority of library databases allow you to export references to your EndNote library.
Get Course Readings
Library Reserves provide a print collection of textbooks as well as electronic access to articles, chapters and other course materials. If you have questions about access, please email our Service desk at pseldesk@library.tamu.edu or call 979-862-3544.
Logon to Course ReservesYou should see any courses in which you are enrolled (if they have any reserves). Clicking on a course will bring up the listing including links to online readings and pdfs.