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Rising Scholars Program: Merced College Library: Research Requests

Cross-disciplinary library guide that provides one stop for accessing resources for students and faculty. Forms, timelines and contact information are also provided.

Policies and Guidelines

Research Requests

Please encourage student to fill out the top of research request completely

One request from each student, two times per month per class/section.

Forms can be used to request research information unrelated to the assignment, but within the scope of Merced College Library Policies.

Faculty may submit the forms to the librarians at refdesk@mccd.edu or to the Rising Scholar offices for delivery. Forms may also be picked up at the Downey Center Library. Please communicate with the librarians when you intend to pick up: we fill the research requests as quickly as possible, usually within 3-4 working days, first come-first serve.

Faculty are welcome to scan the documents and email them as a PDF.

Information must be on the front page to be captured by scan.
At this time (Fall 2022) we are not creating electronic document packets for student request. We are working to create a Canvas shell or module you can import into Canvas to point students toward. More to come soon.

Library Hours and FAQs
Merced College Library Homepage

Policies re Library Materials and Incarcerated Students

Printable documents (see file attachment below).

Please include this policy statement in your syllabus or when you first distribute the Research Request forms.

Merced College Incarcerated Student Policy

Research Request Forms

Distribute Research Request forms for Student use

Print in black and white: do NOT use colored paper
One Research Request per student, two times per month for each section enrolled.
Requests are answered in the order they are received, usually within 3-7 days depending on workload.
Instructor is notified via email when the Research Requests are added to packets (correspondence modality), or when placed in instructor box (in-person modality).

Rising Scholar Library Research Request Form
Students via correspondence may submit these research request forms to the faculty and the Rising Scholar program forwards to library.

We average 2-3 days turnaround for requests. Please advise students limit one research request, per class, twice a semester. Limit one research topic, two issues within the topic/assignment/prompt.