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Distance Learning

The Ort Library is proud to extend services to students, faculty and staff that support FSU's online learning and distance education initiatives.

Remote Access for Library Services

If you are a student, faculty member or staff member on campus, you need your FSU ID card with the 14-digit barcode for library services. You can obtain your ID card from the ID office in Chesapeake Hall. After you obtain your card, stop by the Library Circulation Desk to activate it for library services.

If you are a student enrolling in only online courses who lives outside the Frostburg area, you may obtain your 14 digit barcode for library services by contacting the ID office at 301-687-4196 and providing your seven-digit student ID number. After obtaining your barcode number, please call the Library Circulation Desk at 301-687-4395 for activation.

Resources to Support Distance Learning

The following resources are integral to support a positive academic research environment:

• Articles
  Access Research Port to find articles from magazines, newspapers,and research journals.
  
  To login to Research Port from off-campus, please choose Frostburg State University as your campus affiliation, then enter your 14-digit barcode number and your last name as illustrated in the two steps below:
  
  
  
  Hint: If you have already located a citation to a journal article, you can quickly check to see if available as full text in the Research Port databases.  To learn more, review the Citation Linker Tutorial (Flash).
  
  Note: You may need to disable your Internet browser's popup blocker for full Research Port functionality.
  
  
• Journals
  Go directly to the Research Port Journal Tab (off-campus login required) to see if a particular magazine, newspaper, or research journal is available online as electronic full text.
  
  
• Books
  With catalogUSMAI you can find books that are either held locally in the FSU Ort Library, or in one of the 15 other participating USMAI Consortium Libraries across Maryland, where you as a student, faculty, or staff member also have borrowing priveleges.
  
  Tip: As a FSU library borrower, you can request books for pickup from other USMAI libraries around the state, and have them sent to the Ort Library or the USMAI Consortium library nearest you. Keep in mind that borrowing policies may differ between libraries.
  
  
• Interlibrary Loan
  
  Books not available in the USMAI Consortium Libraries may be requested via ILLiad.  Learn how to login to ILLiad (PDF)
  
  Journal articles unavailable in Research Port or the FSU Ort Library can be requested via ILLiad through the Find It link. Learn how to request articles via ILLiad (PDF)
  
  Note: Some articles may be delivered in an electronic PDF format while others articles arrive in a print photocopy format. To check the status of your request, login to ILLiad.

Research Help

If you are not sure where to start in terms of finding articles in a particular subject area, click on the Subject Guides and choose the subject.  The guide is organized by a list of core databases, relevant Websites in addition to a list of print reference sources that will help you get started.

Subject Guides

When it comes time to write your work cited or your bibliography, click on the Citation Style Guides and find the style that you need in order to write your citation in the correct format.

Citation Style Guides

Renew your books online or check the status of your book requests at My Account in catalogUSMAI (login required).

Reference Services-For assistance with your research needs.   Contact the reference desk at 301-687-4424 or email libref@frostburg.edu

General Library Information-Contact the Circulation Desk at 301-687-4395. 

To learn more about the hours of the library, you can click on this link to get the latest information:Library Hours

Reference and Instruction Staff

• Seán Henry, Coordinator of Library Instruction,
       Web Development
• Pam Williams, Associate Director of User Services
• Liz Keller, Access Services, Information Literacy
• MaryJo Price, Special Collections and Reference
• Jeff Maehre, Government Documents, Reference