Research Help offered at Forsyth Library includes assistance through:
Schedule an Appointment: This service is available to those needing in-depth reference assistance. Please inform the staff of your special needs, so they can better accommodate you.
E-Mail Reference: - E-mail form for submitting questions to reference staff.
Phone: 785-639-6180
Text: 785-527-9483
Live Chat: Live Chat available during Research Help hours.
With one-week advance notice, Forsyth Library will provide special accommodations for library instruction, workshops, and programs. These may include additional instruction notes, enlarged print, preferential or alternate seating, audio lectures, closed captions or transcripts, alternate text formats, or service animal accommodations.
Please contact refserv@fhsu.edu or call 785-628-6180 to arrange these accommodations.
Library staff is available to assist you if you cannot retrieve books or other materials from library stacks. Ask at the Learning Commons Desk on the main floor.
If you are not able to come to the library in person to pick up books or other materials, you may specify one or more individuals who are allowed to check out materials for you. To add a proxy borrower to your account, please call the Learning Commons desk at 785-628-4434 or email us at forsyth@mail.fhsu.edu. You can also reserve materials for pickup in advance as described below.
Most library materials may be reserved to pick up at the Learning Commons Desk up to two weeks in advance.
When searching online for an item in the library catalog
You can also call 785-628-4434 to have an item reserved and made ready for pickup.
All students can request up to 50 pages at a time from Forsyth Library's physical materials to be scanned into .pdf form and delivered to your interlibrary loan account using the Interlibrary Loan platform. We offer format conversion for document delivery. If you need Forsyth Library materials delivered in a specific format, such as a screenreader-friendly PDF, please specify this in the “notes” field of the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan platform request form.
FHSU Online students and faculty can use Interlibrary Loan to request physical items (from Forsyth Library or ILL lending libraries) to be mailed. The address you use to create your ILLiad account will be the mailing address used to deliver any physical materials. Physical items will be mailed to your personal address at no cost. However, you are responsible for paying return shipping back to Forsyth Library. We can only mail items to patrons who live in the United States.
Books and library materials may be renewed through your library account.
You can also renew items in person at the Learning Commons Desk, or over the phone at 785-628-4434.
Laptops, tablets and technology must be renewed in person at the Learning Commons Desk.
Interlibrary loan materials can be renewed through your interlibrary loan Illiad account, if the item is eligible for renewal.
Many EBSCO and Gale databases provide a read aloud option and download to mp3 feature for full text articles available in HTML format.
Select the HTML Full Text link.
Click on the orange play icon (appearing just under the article's title) to start the audio.
You can select up to three accents from the drop down menu box.
Click the download icon to download an mp3 file of the audio.
Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat both have a read aloud feature. This feature will allow PDFs that are ADA accessible to be read out loud for patrons.
In Windows OS to turn the read aloud feature on:
open the PDF
go to the View option at the top of the screen and select Read Out Loud and then scroll down to the last option listed called, Activate Read Out Loud
click on the screen to begin reading
To pause, select a specific section, or, read to the end of the document, select view, the read out loud option, and then the appropriate option (pause, etc.)
In Mac OS to turn the read aloud feature on:
open the PDF
go to the Edit option at the top of the screen and select Speech and then select the option, Start Speaking
reader will start automatically
To stop, select Edit at the top of the screen, then select Speech, and last select the option, Stop Speaking
Includes multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Premier, plus many others that focus on a particular subject or discipline. Click Ebscohost Research Databases, then check the database(s) you want to search and click "Continue" at the top.
Includes Gale Professional Collection, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale Genealogy Connect, Gale Business Collection, and Artemis Literary Sources.