Faculty & Staff

Our goal is to ensure that Drake faculty receive high-quality library services that support instruction and professional research, to collaborate with faculty and staff in building excellent collections and to engage in activities that promote information literacy and scholarship.

Instruction and Course Materials

Our dedicated team of information literacy experts are ready to collaborate and support your teaching. From tailored research instruction sessions to curated collections of resources designed for your course, we are here to reinforce your instructional goals.

The library owns or has access to tens of thousand of eBooks that can be used as course texts. You can use Course Reserves to make physical copies (from the library or your own collection) available to students for short checkout periods, and to make online documents and links available as E-Reserves. Find more details on our Course Materials page.

Visit our Teaching Support section to explore the many ways we can help.

Requesting Library Materials

Looking for something the library doesn't own? Consider borrowing from another library through Interlibrary Loan or FastTRAC, or you can ask the library to purchase it for our collection. To request a new online resource, such as a database or other online collection, you can submit that suggestion as well.

You can authorize one or more individuals (teaching assistant, student employee, etc.) to borrow and pick up library materials on your behalf. See our Faculty Proxy page to get more information and submit a request.

Visit our Borrow & Request section for additional information and services.

Publishing and OER

The library is here to support your scholarly publishing journey, whether you're investigating journal submissions or exploring Open Access (OA) and Open Education Resource (OER) options.

If you've already published your work, submit it to eScholarShare, Drake's online repository for Drake-generated scholarship. We'll make sure it's securely stored, and provide a link you can use to easily share it with anyone.

Visit our Publishing Support page for more information.