How do I…
- Check out a book?
Find the book through the OSU Libraries catalog. Take to the Circulation Desk, and check it out with your OSU ID.
- Check out a laptop?
Circulation checks out laptops.
- Check out a study room?
Circulation can reserve and check out study rooms.
- Check out something from course reserves?
Search the OSU Libraries Catalog for its Course Reserve Number. Ask for the item by number at the Circulation Desk. Check it out with your OSU ID.
- Register my laptop?
Current OSU faculty staff or students may use personal laptops in the Valley Library by registering them. You will need to know your ONID username and password to get started. If you are in the Valley Library and need additional help, there is a workstation and phone devoted to Computer Help in the Learning Commons. If you aren't on campus, contact the OSU Computer Helpdesk.
- Get change?
Java II (1st floor) can make change. If it's closed, you can put a dollar in the pop machine and press "coin return".
- Make photocopies?
There is a photocopy center on the 2nd floor of the Valley Library at the west end of the main avenue. Photocopiers are also available on each floor. Coin operated machines are located on the first and second floors only. You can also use your OSU ID/convenience card.
- Use a convenience card?
Convenience cards can be purchased for $1 from the machine located in the copy center on the 2nd floor of Valley Library, or from the ID center located in Kerr B094. The same sources can be used to add money to your card. To copy, swipe the card on the machine you wish to use.
- Scan a document?
In the copy room on the 2nd floor, there are two machines called EScan. Use your OSU ID or a convenience card. Follow the directions taped to the display screen to scan and email a document to yourself. It is free, but your card must have money on it to activate the transaction.
- Make transparencies?
A self-service transparency machine is in the copy room on the 2nd floor. It will only make black and white copies. Transparencies are 75¢.
- Use copy services?
Copy services can be requested from the Circulation Desk at the Valley Library.
- Print?
If you are a student and are logged in with your ONID account, select "vlibmain-Bill My Account" from the dropdown list of available printers. If you are not logged in with an ONID account, select "Angelou" or "Dickens" and use your OSU ID/convenience card to print.
- Print in color?
When logged in with ONID, select "vlib colour-ask at reference desk". Notify someone at the reference desk that you have sent a print request to the color printer. Printing costs 40¢ per color page.
Tip: Any changes in properties or settings must be done after you change to the color printer.
- Print a PDF?
Printing from the print icon or saving the file before printing seems to work best. If nothing comes out, make sure the contents are printing, and not the frame outside the PDF.
- Print from my personal laptop?
The Information desk on the 2nd floor has direction slips for printing from personal Mac laptops. They will print only to the printers Angelou and Dickens.
- Print from library laptops?
Library laptops print to any of the printers in the Learning Commons. Notify someone at the reference desk that you have sent a print job from a library laptop and they will release the print for you. To release jobs from the printers Angelou or Dickens, you will need to swipe your OSU ID or convenience card.
- Use Convenience Card or "Swipe My Card" printing?
"Swipe My Card" printing is an alternate to billing your student account. It works on a pay-in-advance system rather than the credit system used by ONID. A convenience card can be purchased from the "add value" machine in the copy center or from the ID center in Kerr B094. Only cash can be added to this card, using the "add value" machine in the library. The ID center can do other transactions. Value is deducted from the card each time it is used to print.
- Print from Blackboard?
If you are attempting to print a file from Blackboard, the File > Print method sometimes does not work, because the browser sees the file as a separate window. Click on the file's printer icon directly above the text you want to print, or open the file into a different tab/window.
- Get a refund for my messed up print job?
Fill out an ONID Printing Credit Request Form (available at the Reference Desk). Funds will be credited to your ONID account if the requests is approved.
- Check out books at Valley Library if I'm not a student?
Circulation is able to set up library accounts for all Oregon residents who are not students.
- Log on to the computer?
Students can log on with a valid ONID username and password. Make sure that the domain is set to "ONID" (not library, bus, engineering, etc). Guests can log on using the guest login instructions located on the top of the keyboard.
- Access my department account from a library computer? (e.g. Business, Engineering, etc.)
You can log on only with your ONID account on the computers in the Learning Commons.
- Look up my library record?
Log on to OASIS with your last name and OSU ID number, or, for resident card holders, your convenience card number.
- Check see when my book is due?
Log on to OASIS. Click on "Checkout History".
- Renew a book online?
Log on to OASIS. Select the items you would like to renew and click on "Renew Items".
- Get a book that is not available in the library at this time?
If the item is currently checked out, you can put a hold on it by clicking the "Request" button from within the item record. You will be emailed when it becomes available. You may also request another library's book through Summit by clicking the "Repeat in Summit" button on the top right hand side of the page, and then clicking the request button. Books ordered through Summit usually arrive within 3 days. You will be emailed when Summit items are available.
- Find out if a book came in from InterLibrary Loan (ILL)?
The ILL department should email your ONID account when your library items have arrived. You can also ask the Circulation desk with a valid ID.
- Check the lost and found?
The Valley Library's lost & found is located at the Circulation Desk on the main floor, (541) 737-2538,
- Send a fax?
There is a fax machine in the Post Office located in the basement of the Memorial Union. The service centers in the dining halls also have fax machines.
- Get a tutor?
The Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) is located in the Learning Commons (2nd floor). Check the online schedules for tutors in biology, math, chemistry, physics, writing, and zoology. Career Services also meets with students in the CLC.
- Get a computer if the library computers are all in use?
Milne Computer Center is located directly across the courtyard from the Valley Library. Regular hours are 11am Sunday - 9pm Friday (open 24 hours) and Saturday from 11am - 9pm. Check their website for more information.
- Use a call number?
A call number classifies material by its subject and its location. The first letter identifies the floor it is on, the second letter identifies the section of that floor it is in, and the following numbers indicate its numerical location on the shelves.
- Set up my ONID account?
Make sure your General Access Pin (GAP) has been reset before signing up. Go to ONID and follow the directions.
- Get my GAP number?
General Access Pin number. The default password is your birth date.
- Reset a forgotten password?
From the ONID login page, click on "I forgot my password" to reset it.
- Get my ONID username?
From the OSU homepage, click on Find Someone. Search for your name. When the results come up, click on your name and look at the bottom of the page for "ONID Username".
- Figure out my forgotten OSU ID number?
Log in to Student Online Services using your Social Security number instead of your OSU ID. Click on "Personal Information", then "Display OSU ID".
- Access wireless internet on campus outside the Valley Library?
You can access the public network at the Residence Hall Main Lounges, the Cooperative House Lounge Areas, the West Dining Hall, McNary Dining Hall, and Arnold Dining Hall. A map of the OSU Wireless network is available.
- Find the multimedia collection?
DVDS and videos are stored behind the circulation desk. Take your call number to the desk to check out your item.
- Locate items at COCC?
COCC is the Central Oregon Community College in Bend. OSU Cascades and COCC Libraries are housed in the same building. Books can be requested from COCC for delivery at Valley or Guin, and vice versa.
- Find the Beaver Yearbooks?
LD4348.A4 (5th floor)
- Find a particular journal?
You can search one of two ways:
- Using the OSU Libraries Catalog, select "limit search to journals" and search for the journal title. The record of the journal title will show both print and electronic subscriptions.
- To see if OSU Libraries has an electronic subscription to a particular journal, use the "e-journals" link. Search by journal title, not by article title.
- Search for a book?
Use the OSU Libraries Catalog. This is a database of the items owned by the OSU Libraries. Each book is assigned a call number which tells you where the book is shelved.
