LibGuides: Rising Scholars Program: Merced College Library: Research Request Forms

Policies and Guidelines

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.
Forms are scanned by staff Melissa and Bianca: all information must be on the front page to be captured by scan. The librarian and professor will be emailed the scanned documents.

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

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.