Services for Off-Campus Library Members
Online Collections
- OneSearch
OneSearch shows all of the library’s collections. Enter your search, then look on the left for Refine My Results: check the box under Availability for “Full Text Online.” This will show:- E-Books
- Full-text journals, magazines, and newspapers
- Streaming films/video
- Databases
This list shows all databases, A-Z. To sort them by subject, change “All Subjects” to your choice.
Login/password not working?
Contact the Hollins IT Help Desk: (540) 362-6538 or helpdesk@hollins.edu
Research Help
Materials & Interlibrary Loan
Articles and Book Chapters
Articles and book chapters will be scanned and emailed to you at no charge by our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services. Materials not available at Hollins may take 2-4 weeks to obtain, so plan your research early.
- ILL request form.
- NOTE: If you are an off-campus graduate student that needs an item from our collection, please indicate that in the “Notes” section of your request.
- Contact: ill@hollins.edu or 540-362-6239.
Books
Your local public library can borrow books from Hollins, from Roanoke College and many other libraries using Interlibrary Loan service; this is a fast, efficient and low-cost way to get the books you need.
Request Books by Mail
If local Interlibrary Loan is not available to you, we can mail books from the Hollins and Roanoke collections to your home. You will only be responsible for the cost of return postage to the library.
To have our books mailed to you:
- Fill out the online request form*, AND
- Indicate your a distance graduate student and write your mailing address in the “Notes” section of the ILL request form. If you forget to write your mailing address, please email ill@hollins.edu.
Renewing Books
To renew books which you have borrowed directly from Hollins:
Returning Books
The return address for mailing books back to the library is:
Wyndham Robertson Library
Attn. ILL.
Hollins University
7950 E. Campus Dr.
Roanoke, VA 24020
Theses
See our services for theses writers page
Using Other Academic Libraries
The VIVA Cooperative Borrowing program lets current Hollins students borrow materials on-site from participating Virginia college and university libraries. More information on VIVA Cooperative Borrowing.
To search the collections of academic libraries worldwide, use Worldcat.
Other Hollins Support Departments
- Hollins IT Help Desk: (540) 362-6538 or helpdesk@hollins.edu
- Moodle support: Brad Oechslin, (540) 362-6020 or boechslin@hollins.edu
- Hollins Writing Center: (540) 362-6387 or thewritingcenter@hollins.edu
Last updated: January 24, 2023 at 8:25 am