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Information for distance students, faculty, and staff
If you're not located in Boise, this is the page for you! Albertsons Library provides some services that are particularly geared towards your needs. This page highlights those options.
For more information about how to access library services or resources from a distance, email Kim Leeder or call her at (208) 426-1621.
Get help now!
Open 24/7. Try our free chat reference service, AnswerXpress, for any questions you have at any time of day.
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Or call us at (208) 426-3301 during the hours the library is open.
Need a book?
Try our electronic books! Albertsons Library has a small but growing collection of electronic books and audiobooks that can be read or listened to entirely online. To search these items, go to the catalog's Basic Search and under "Quick Limit" choose "BSU E-Books."
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Search the library catalog.
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View a list of e-book databases.
Need an article?
Get it in full-text online. A large percentage of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles are available to read online. Look for the 
button in our article databases to link through to full-text of an article, when available.
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Choose a database to search for articles.
It's only in print? No problem!
We're not Netflix, but... If you need a physical book or other paper item from our collection, the Library will mail books and other printed items to distance students at no charge (though we're unable to cover return postage).
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Request form to have print items mailed to you.
Want to find out if we own a journal/magazine/newspaper/etc.?
Print or online, you got it. You can find out what we have in full-text online and what we have in print, and what's available for the year or issue you need. Check the dates under "Online Coverage" to see what years we have in full-text online for any journal.
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Search our journals list.
Need course reserves?
Get 'em virtually. We have an e-reserves system for course reserves you can access from anywhere.
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Find e-reserve items for my class.