Student Services

Need help with your research or citation review? We provide research and citation assistance both in person and virtually.

For Research Assistance:

• Stop by the Research Desk.
  • Fall and Spring Semesters
    • 8am – 8pm Monday – Thursday
    • 8am – 5pm Friday
    • CLOSED Saturday and Sunday
  • Summer and Intersessions
    • 8am – 5pm Monday – Friday
    • CLOSED Saturday and Sunday
• Call the desk at (806) 651-2239 during open hours
• Make an appointment with a librarian in person or virtually through our website.
• Chat with a librarian 24/7 through our website.

Find resources for your assignments using our Subject Guides and/or Course Guides.

The Access Services Desk provides users with the means to borrow library materials. This includes checking out and returning library-owned and interlibrary loan items.

• Undergraduate checkout of Cornette Library materials:
  • Check out up to 100 items for 21 days each.
  • Your items will renew automatically up to 5 times until the end of the semester.
• Graduate checkout of Cornette Library materials:
  • Can check out up to 100 items for an entire semester with no renewals
• Online/Distance Students
  • In addition to the above check out limits, Cornette Library will deliver library-owned or Interlibrary Loan (ILL) items to you through the mail. Simply place an Interlibrary Loan request and indicate within the notes that you're an online/distance student.
• Amarillo Center
  • In addition to the above check out limits, Cornette Library will deliver a book we own to the Amarillo Center via the University Courier. Fill out this form to Request a Library Book via this service.
  • Student must have WTAMU or other legal identification to receive the item from the Amarillo Center office.
• RELLIS
  • RELLIS students enrolled in a WT course have full access to the Cornette Library and its resources.
  • If you are a RELLIS student, you may order books and articles from the Cornette Library through Interlibrary Loan. We will send your items to the RELLIS library via TExpress courier.

Checkout period and penalties for overdue material will be determined by whether you are an Undergraduate or Graduate/Doctoral student. Check out the Borrowing Policies page of our website for more information.

If you are an Online/Distance or RELLIS student you can have books mailed to you through Interlibrary Loan. If you attend classes at the Amarillo Center you can have books delivered to the Amarillo Center Office.

• Items must be something that can be checked out:
  • Loan books.
  • Youth books.
  • Government Documents that circulate.
• Items found in Course Reserve, Reference books, and Special Collections and Archives cannot leave the Library.
• For Online/Distance and RELLIS students, please allow 1-3 weeks for items requested through Interlibrary Loan to arrive.
• Processing of items to be delivered to the Amarillo Center will take 1-2 business days depending on the time we receive the request. Items are only delivered to the Amarillo Center once per week, so picking your items up at the Main Campus may be faster. For more information, please contact the ILL Coordinator at (806) 651-2406 or ill@wtamu.edu.
• Amarillo Center students return items to either the office at the WTAMU Amarillo Center or to Cornette Library.
• Online/Distance students can return items either via mail or in person to the Cornette Library.
• RELLIS students return ILL materials to the RELLIS library and they will send them back to the Cornette Library.

Need a book or article we don’t have here? We can usually borrow items for you from another library through Interlibrary Loan. All current WTAMU students can use our ILL services.

Interlibrary Loan Desk hours and contact information:

• Monday – Friday 7:45 am – 5 pm
• (806) 651-2406
• ill@wtamu.edu

For more information, please see our Interlibrary Loan Services page.

Request an Item through ILL

We offer a wide range of study rooms in our building to accommodate various group sizes.

You can book the following study rooms online:

• Large (3+) Group Study Room
• Small (1-4) Group Study Room
• Individual Study Room

After booking, come to the Access Services Desk to check-in.

When you come to the library, you will have access to all the technology available below.

• Windows PCs.
• Apple iMacs.
• Buff Print stations you can use to print your 3,000 pages per semester.
• Document scanners for free document digitization.
• Photocopying available for 10 cents per page.
• Microfilm/fiche readers.

The Library has print books and physical DVDs for leisure reading and viewing. For eBooks, audiobooks and streaming movies, please try the databases Overdrive/Libby and Films on Demand.

The Library provides access to Endnote, which you can use to organize and automatically create references and citations for your sources. This service requires the creation of a personal account.

For further information on Endnote, please see our Endnote Guide.