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Renew Items

You can renew your library materials up to 3 times either in person or online on your own. The link, “Renew Books” is located on the left side of this screen, under the “FSU Libraries Catalog” search box. The University Libraries page also has a hyperlink “RENEWALS” just below their search term box.

These links will take you to a page where you are prompted to enter your library ID and password.

The next screen will display several options. choose “Loans” to see the list of items you have checked out. In front of each item you will see a “Renew” button that you use to renew a single item or use a button “renew all” to renew all your items.

Pay Overdue Fines

Goldstein does not accept payment for overdue fines. To pay your fines, you can go to the Cashier’s Office at the University Center in Building A, or pay them online. To pay online:

1. Access your Student Secure Information Menu
   • Go to campus.fsu.edu
   • Enter your FSU username and password
   • Click the “Secure Apps” tab located on the top right-hand side of the page.
   • Click the link “Make a payment” and see the fee posted there.

 “Request” an item or “Place on Hold”

When you locate an item in the online catalog and see that the libraries have only one copy of it and it is checked out you can “Request” or “Place a Hold” on it. The record of that item will display its due date next to the call number and also a note “Place a Hold” next to it; click on the link.

You will be prompted to enter your library card number. The number is 14 digits starting with 206XX located at the bottom of your FSU ID card.

You will also have to enter your password. The default will be 4 digits: birth month/day e.g. 0915 for September 15 until you change it on YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT PAGE

Tutorials

This section provides bibliographic instruction on how to use a specific database or tool.

• Bare Bones 101 - A basic tutorial on searching the web.
• FINDSPOT - Guide to using search engines.
• Search Engine Tutorials - Tutorials provided through Search Engine Watch.
• Ebrary - Training video on using Ebrary's interface, how to search, navigate through the document, highlight, etc.
• Web of science – Gives overview of product and tutorial on how to use it in your research.

Reference Guides

These guides can be printed and include hotlinks to aspects of the subjects.

• APA Documentation  (pdf 226.32 kB)
• Chicago Manual of Style  (pdf 178.16 kB)
• English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources  (pdf 455.90 kB)
• Finding Fairy Tales (pdf 413.14 kB)
• Finding Multicultural Materials (pdf 423.40 kB)
• General Terms in Children's Literature (pdf 411.05 kB)
• Genres of Children's Literature (pdf 255.24 kB)
• MLA Documentation (pdf 133.88 kB)
• Goldstein materials in WorldCat (pdf 327.54 kB)

Access Electronic Resources Off-Campus

University Libraries at FSU provide free access to many resources available electronically. These resources can be accessed from anywhere on campus. However, if you are not on campus, you must configure your proxy to have access. You can find a link to Off-campus login at the University libraries′ page at http://www.lib.fsu.edu or you can click on this link: https://proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login and logon using your FSU username and password.

Last updated: January 12, 2009 by Naya-Darice Ramos
Content Provider: Pam Doffek