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Library Services Desk: Collections

This guide is intended to provide a communications means to all personnel involved in the Library Services Desk

Health, Physical Education and Recreation, FICHE Books

A common topic for ENG101 papers has been academic performance and athletic participation. Students often find fiche books on this topic. These are usually theses and dissertations related to Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Fiche books may be available online through the Oregon PDF in Health & Performance database. Users of this database can request that full-text access be added for titles that are not already digitized. Use the "Request Product be Converted to PDF" link and fill out the form.

 

Updated 5/13/25 - MK

Journal Request Form

Person monitoring BLREF role:

  • Identify the subject librarian for the person requesting the journal.
  • Send the following response (see below the line) to the requestor and cc the subject librarian.
  • Remove the message from BLREF to avoid duplicate replies to the patron.

Subject Librarian role:

  • Upon receipt of the response from the initial librarian, the subject librarian for the area should send a follow up email to the requestor to let her/him know any additional details about the journal (cost, other options for access, etc.)

Thank you for submitting a journal recommendation. The input of faculty and staff is important to providing a journal collection responsive to SDSU priorities. A committee of librarians will review the recommendations for new subscriptions. Based on the funds available and campus curriculum and research needs. they will decide which new subscriptions will be added. Please contact your subject librarian (Name) if you have questions or additional comments about your recommendation.

Government Information

LOCKED COMPACT SHELVING

Three Federal Government Documents Series are in the Locked Compact Shelving on the Lower Level: The United States Congressional Serial Set (1846-), The Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior (I 1.1: ) and the Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Smithsonian (SI 2.1:). Please ask for assistance in the Government Documents Office.

 

GOV DOCS MICROFICHE ONLINE

Many government documents that are available on microfiche are also available online. If you find them in the library catalog, they may be linked to the online version. Or search in GovInfo https://www.govinfo.gov/

Updated 5/13/25

Graphic Novels in Briggs August 2022

To search for additional graphic novels in the catalog, use the following method:

Enter the phrase “graphic novels” in the Quick Search window on the library homepage.
Limit the search by choosing “Books” under “Source Type” on the left side the of the page.
Do one of the following:

  • Limit further by choosing “Graphic Novels” under “Subject” on the left side of the page;
  • Or Limit further by choosing "Graphic Novels" under the heading "Genre" on the left side of the page.

Some of the results will be books about graphic novels rather than actual graphic novels. Browse the list to find relevant titles.

Updated 5/13/25 MK