Services for Graduate Students

• Reference Service

  Reference Librarians are available to help you find the information you need.

  In person at the Reference Desk, M-F 9-5; Sun. 1-5

  By phone at 503-768-7285

  By email

  By instant message

  By appointment in a research consultation

  During librarian office hours

• Research Consultations

  Need some in-depth help with your research? Schedule a research consultation. Students may schedule an appointment with a librarian for assistance with any information need. This might include help with a research paper or project, or simply learning more about how to use the library.

• Borrowing Materials

  Graduate students may borrow books for three weeks and audiovisual (AV) materials for two weeks. Overdue fines are 20¢/day for books and $2/day for AV materials. Request renewals in person, by phone, or online through Your Library Accounts.
  
  Students may also borrow books and selected AV materials from Summit, a consortium of 33 northwest academic libraries. Items requested via Summit will be delivered to LC for pick-up, generally within 3 working days. If an item is not available here at L&C, or in Summit, it may still be available through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) . Overdue fines for Summit and ILL materials accrue at a rate of 50¢/day for the first ten days an item is overdue and $1.00/day thereafter.

  L&C, Summit, and Interlibrary Loan materials can all be found in L&C WorldCat.

• Delivery Service

  Graduate students may have library materials delivered to the Admissions Office in 202 Rogers Hall. Simply find an item using the library catalog, click the Request button, and follow the instructions. Students may pick up materials Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 5pm.  For an article from the Library's periodicals collection, make a request and a scanned copy will be delivered to you electronically.

• Commons Book Drop

  Library materials may be returned to Watzek by placing them in the book drop located in the South Campus Commons area. This book drop is picked up by library staff once a day Monday-Friday.

• Course Reserves

  To find out if your class has something on reserve, select Course Reserves on the library home page. Many articles and audio selections will be available electronically directly from the Course Reserves Web pages. You will need your LC email username and password to access electronic reserves.  Other reserve materials (books, videos, etc.) are available at the Circulation Desk.

• Your Library Accounts

  Login to Your Library Accounts using your name and LC ID number. View due dates of your items borrowed, renew materials, and check the status of requested Summit materials and interlibrary loan requests. You can also save "preferred searches" on a favorite topic and receive email notices when new materials on your topic are added to the library collection.

• Remote Access

  Access library resources off campus at library.lclark.edu. When accessing research databases, you will be prompted to enter your LC email username and password.

• Wireless Access

  Equip your laptop with a wireless card and access the Internet from anywhere in the Library.

• Lockers

  The lockers on the ground floor of the Library may be rented on a space available basis.

• Group Study Rooms

  There are 11 group study rooms in the library that are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Groups have priority over individuals for use of these rooms.  Holding a study room by leaving personal belongings in it is not permitted.

• Visual Resources Collection

  The College Visual Resources Collection contains nearly 50,000 slides and over 38,000 digital images of art and architecture.

• Special Collections

  Lewis & Clark's Special Collections offers extensive research collections and the ability to view historical photographs and college yearbooks online.

• Ed.D. Dissertations

  Doctoral Dissertations from The Graduate School of Education's Doctor of Education in Leadership (Ed.D.) program can be found in ProQuest's PQDT Open database; they are also indexed in the library catalog under the author name "Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Or.) Graduate School of Education and Counseling."