Faculty Services
The library offers services for Rollins faculty, including research assistance, critical thinking and information literacy instruction, and scholarly publication hosting.
Enhance Your Teaching
Enhance Your Research
Librarian Teaching & Research Instruction
Each librarian serves as a liaison to an academic department and can provide discipline-specific consultation and tailor resources to faculty and students. They are available for one-on-one research assistance consultations, information literacy instruction, library orientations, and more.
Need a book for your class? We gather book reserve requests to hold at the Circulation desk throughout the semester.
Beginning spring 2025, the library will unveil Study Stax, a powerful platform drawing from library holdings and other systems to pull centralized reading lists that can be published directly to Canvas for students to access.
Created by your Librarians, these research guides include links to quality and curated resources to support your students in their writing and research projects. Librarians can create guides specific to your courses or take any edit suggestions to available subject guides.
You can add these to your Canvas courses and course syllabi.
Your librarians are available to teach a research session to your students on utilizing the library’s resources and services, critical thinking and information literacy competencies. The session can be tailored to meet the learning outcomes of your assignment.
Partner with Olin library faculty and staff to help save your students money on textbooks by strategically using our resources, librarian expertise, and services supporting open educational resources and publishing.
The library offers a Textbook Affordability Grant, providing course textbooks and a stipend for instructors to recognize their work in implementing affordable solutions. Learn more below.
Library Grant Opportunities
The Olin Library offers the following grants for current Rollins faculty and instructors to support the cost of course materials:
Open Educational Resources (OER) Grants
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed teaching, learning, and research materials that aim to reduce student costs and empower educators to create, customize, and share knowledge, fostering innovation and inclusivity in the classroom.
The Olin Library offers two OER grants, with proposals accepted throughout the year and reviewed by the Olin Library OER Group:
- one designed to help instructors review existing OER options,
- one assists in implementing OER materials into existing curriculum.
Textbook Affordability Grant
The Olin Library offers a textbook affordability grant for current Rollins faculty and instructors, which the Olin Library OER Group will review. Applications are accepted year-round, but are reviewed twice annually: July 1st and November 1st.
Publishing, Copyright, and Open Licensing
Publish with the Library
Rollins Digital Press is the College’s Open Educational Resources (OER) publishing platform, powered by Pressbooks, uses Creative Commons (CC) Licensing to ensure public access to written works while allowing copyright holders to control how their works are used or reused.
Start creating Open Access (OA) materials for your courses today.
Share Your Scholarship Worldwide
Already published and interested in increasing your readership? Submit your recent publications to Rollins Scholarship Online, which will allow freer access to your written works for the benefit of the global research community. By creating an account and submitting your work, you can track how many readers access your publications and where they are across the globe.
More Library Resources and Services
- Borrowing from UCF and WPLIn an effort to expand the library resources available to our respective users, the Olin Library with University of Central Florida Library and with Winter Park Library have entered into a reciprocal agreement to allow responsible users to borrow materials at both libraries.
- Interlibrary LoanEverything you need to know about interlibrary loan, what it is, how it works, and where you can go for help!
Recommend Library Purchases
Current students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to use these forms to recommend items for the library to purchase.
Meet with Your Librarian
They are available to support your research, teaching, and scholarship.
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