If you have questions about the following
information, please be sure to contact any member of Bridwell’s
Public Services staff. We are happy to help. You can reach the
Circulation Desk at 214.768.1866 or the Reference Desk at
214.768.4046. Or go to Bridwell’s web page at
www.smu.edu/bridwell
SMU ID card. The SMU id has two numbers: your 8-digit
SMU ID number and a 14-digit barcode number (beginning with
22177 . . .). These numbers are your “open sesame” for getting
into your library account and SMU’s Online Resources from remote
(off-campus) locations.
Online Resources
consist of e-journals and databases in Religion & Theology, as
well as an array of other disciplines, many of which provide
full-text articles online.
Your library
account is the means by which you can renew books online (if
they are not already overdue) which means you don’t have to
physically bring them back to Bridwell until they are due.
Borrowing Bridwell books long distance. The Bridwell web
site has a form Houston students can use to request books they
want to check out: (http://www.smu.edu/bridwell/forms/hgrqst.html
)
Our circulation
staff retrieves the books, checks them out to the patron, then
sends them to the patron’s home via UPS. Bridwell bears the
cost of getting the books to the patron. The patron is
responsible for shipping or bringing the books back to Bridwell.
TexShare card. You can obtain a TexShare card at
Bridwell’s Circulation Desk. Texshare is a free program that
gives you borrowing privileges at participating libraries
throughout the state, including Houston. You should check with
the library from which you want to borrow a book to confirm that
they participate in the program—Rice University, for example,
does not.
OCLC WorldCat. WorldCat is available through SMU’s
online resources page, under “O” for OCLC. This is a database
of most of the books catalogued throughout North America and
parts of western Europe, and is a great method of determining if
a particular title exists, what format it exists in and where it
is housed. The search interface resembles the Advanced search
in Poni, and search results are categorized by format.
Once you have found the item you seek, simply click
on the item in the results list to open up the full
bibliographic record. Within that record will be a link to
“Libraries worldwide that own item.” Click on this link and a
list of libraries that own the item, including those in the
great Houston area, will come up.
www.worldcat.org is a free public version of OCLC WorldCat
that does much the same thing in a stripped-down format. Once
you find the item you want, you can enter your zip code and it
will display the locations closest to you where you can find
that title.
Some Houston Library web sites
Harris County
Public Library:
http://www.hcpl.net/index.htm
Houston Baptist
University Library:
http://moody.hbu.edu/
University of
Houston Libraries:
http://www.uh.edu/campus/libraries.html
