Off-Campus Access to ISU Library resources requires logging in with your Net-ID and ISU email password. To make the research process easier, we recommend you start by logging into Okta or My Library Card and it will remember you as a valid ISU user until you close your Internet browser.
NOTE: Your Net-ID is the portion of your ISU email address that appears before the @ symbol, as in: yournetid@iastate.edu
The ISU Library has a great staff of librarians (complete with superpowers!) who can answer questions about any aspect of your research that involves searching for information. Each of our liaison librarians is responsible for one or more subject areas and has subject expertise you can tap as you're doing your research.
They can help with advice about research methodologies, database suggestions, data management plans - anything related to how to find use, and evaluate resources. Getting to know your liaison librarian will make your life as a graduate student easier.
Click the icon below to find your librarian!
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers.
A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
- Neil Gaiman
Ask Us!
IM, email, phone us! Your options for library assistance and questions, whether you're here in the library, in your office, or off-campus. Connect with knowledgeable Library staff!
Use the Main Library Account (linked in the top right corner of the library website) to see what you have checked out; renew items online; save your searches; and "pin" or save QuickSearch records to a favorites list for later use.
The other Library Account option is for Interlibrary Loan (ILL) & Document Delivery
This speedy delivery service provides a handy way for ISU students, faculty, and staff to have materials delivered to you. Use the online form to request articles, books & other items be delivered to you. Use your ISU Net-ID and password to login for this.
A helpful service to know about:
Pick from Shelf: Wish you could have assistance in getting library books you need pulled from the shelves for you, and you pick them up from an easy location? You can now, with our "Pick from Shelf" service!
Here's how it works: On the Library's website, login using the My Library Card link in the top right corner. Now use Quick Search to find a book you want, and then click the book's title to open its record. See the Request Options section? Just choose the Request link, and choose where you want to pick up the book - from the Parks Library Circulation Desk, or the Vet Med Library, or Design Reading Room - you're done! More info
Scanning books, journal articles, or other papers:
Self-serve scanners with friendly help screens are located in the Parks Library on Floor 1 (in the southwest corner of the Learning Connections Center), in the Veterinary Medicine Library and the Design Reading Room. These "face-up" book scanners are available during all open hours, and are free of charge. Users can choose to scan in full color, grayscale, or black and white. Output formats include JPEG, TIFF, and PDF. Scanning area is 17" by 24". Scanned files can be emailed or copied to a flash drive.
The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.
