Welcome To Cardinal Meyer Library
Cardinal Meyer Library

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To access your library account to check fines or renew materials, login to your My Library Account. Research databases can be accessed via Research Databases and Tutorials page. Subject specific tutorials are available via Marian Online 2. Your username is the first part of your Marian University email address — i.e. everything before “@marianuniversity.edu.” Your password is your Marian University email password. To check for full-text access to a specific journal, check out Journals A to Z. To see what materials are on reserve for a specific course, click on Course Reserves.
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Library Hours
Sarah Thibodeau:
refdesk@marianuniversity.edu
920-923-8096
Michele Keifenheim:
circdesk@marianuniversity.edu
920-923-7641
Summer Hours
May 7 – May 20
Saturday – Sunday | Closed |
Monday – Friday | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
May 21 – July 31
Saturday – Sunday | Closed |
Monday – Thursday | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Friday | 8:00 am – 12:30 pm |
August 1 – August 27
Saturday – Sunday | Closed |
Monday – Friday | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Finals Hours
April 24 – 27 | 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm |
April 28 | 7:30 am – 4:30 pm |
April 30 | 4:00 am – 10:00 pm |
May 1-3 | 7:30 am – 10:00 pm |
May 4 | 7:30 am – 4:30 pm |
May 5 | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Reference Hours
Monday – Thursday | 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Or by appointment |
Chat with a Librarian
To schedule a Zoom video conference with a librarian or to learn more about this service please call 920-923-8096 or email refdesk@marianuniversity.edu
About Cardinal Meyer Library
Cardinal Meyer Library opened in 1966 when Marian College, now Marian University, moved to its current campus. The building is named in honor of Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer, the brother of former Registrar Sr. Mary Therese Meyer, CSA.
A Milwaukee native, Meyer was appointed Archbishop of Chicago in 1958. Named a cardinal the following year, Meyer served the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S. until his death in 1965. Priest, teacher and spiritual leader, Cardinal Meyer is known as one of the foremost leaders of Vatican Council II.
Library Mission
Cardinal Meyer Library is the intellectual center of the Marian University Academic Community. It is integral to the University’s commitment to the education of the whole person, striving to nurture intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, psychological, social, and physical dimensions.
Conscious of the expanding world of information, the library serves as an information center providing services and resources that support, supplement and enrich the curriculum of each discipline. Sensitive to personal needs, the library staff serves all members of the University community.
Off-Campus Access
Current Marian University students, faculty and staff may access Cardinal Meyer Library databases and e-books from off campus via your MyLibrary account. When you click on the name of a database or the link to an e-book, you will be prompted to log in using your full Marian email address and password. First you must select the “Marian University Email” button (you may check the box so your browser remembers your selection in the future allowing you to skip directly to the login screen). See the image to left.
*Note: The “Guest Login” button is for alumni and community borrowers to log into their accounts to view/renew items they have checked out, it will not enable remote access since they are not current Marian students, staff or faculty.
After you’ve clicked the Marian University email button, log in using your full Marian email address and Marian password.
*Remember to enter your entire email address including the domain, or the @marianuniversity.edu portion, and not just your username.
*Alumni, community borrowers and visitors do not have off-campus access to the library’s resources.
If you are unable to log in, contact the library circulation desk at 920-923-7641 or the reference desk at 920-923-8096.
For help related to using specific library resources such as databases, ebooks, and journals, call the reference desk.
920-923-8096 | refdesk@marianuniversity.edu.
Reference and Research Services
Interlibrary Loan
Current Marian students, faculty, and staff may obtain materials that are not in the Cardinal Meyer Library collection via interlibrary loan.
Materials may be requested in the following ways:
- Submit a Book Request Form or Article Request Form.
- Fill out an Interlibrary Loan form for an article or other item using the link provided in the library’s databases.
Online students and faculty
Online students and faculty may submit a Book Request Form or an Article Request Form for materials owned by the Cardinal Meyer Library. Materials will be sent via U.S. Mail to the patron or delivered to the outreach site. Patrons are responsible for returning books insured via U.S. Mail or UPS.
For more information, see the Interlibrary Loan policy in the policy section below.
Library Instruction and Information for Faculty
Library Instruction and Library Research Assignment Tips for Faculty
The library staff provides library instruction sessions, research workshops, orientations and classroom visits both on campus and at outreach sites upon faculty request. If you would like to schedule a session, please have the following information available:
- What? What is the project or assignment that your students will be working on? What type(s) of sources will your students need to use? What is the research topic? What other requirements does your project or assignment have?
- Where? Is your class on campus or at another location (CHP, hospital/medical center, etc.)?
- When? What date and time would you like to schedule the session? Try to schedule your session early enough in advance to ensure the availability of staff and space.
Library Research Assignment Tips:
- Students often have very different levels of experience with research and resources at Cardinal Meyer Library. Don’t assume they are all proficient. Don’t hesitate to schedule a library instructional session. Encourage students to contact the library for assistance.
- Even if you don’t schedule a library instructional session, the library would appreciate you sending a copy of the research project or assignment so we’re aware of it and can be more prepared to help your students when they come to us for help.
- Encourage your students to use the library’s resources by requiring scholarly sources such as books and peer-reviewed journals.
Library Resources Considerations:
- Before you give your students an assignment, always verify that the library has a subscription or access to the particular resource(s) you want them to use. This is especially important if you are new or teach at more than one institution. The resources that our library subscribes to and has access to change over time. If the library doesn’t have a particular resource, ask us to recommend a similar resource that you can substitute for your assignment.
- If you want your students to use specific databases, make sure you use the specific database name and not just the name of the vendor. For example, “EBSCOhost” is not a specific database, it is a vendor that produces many different subject specific databases such as “Business Source Complete”, “Education Research Complete”, and “CINAHL”, etc., all of which have different journals and other publications in specific subject areas.
- If you want your students to use a specific journal, article, book, etc., make sure to include the correct title and full citation for the resource.
Using Library Resources in MO2 courses:
- If you want to link to an eBook, journal article, video or other resource in your MO2 course, make sure you copy and paste the Permalink for the resource into your course, and not the URL that displays in the address bar in your browser while you’re viewing the resource. The permalink allows others to access the resource through authentication while the URL in your address bar won’t work later on since it’s a session specific URL. Using the wrong link will lead to an error and students won’t be able to access the resource. Most of the databases have a permalink function. *If you need help finding or using the Permalink for your resource, contact the library.
- If you are assigning an eBook for your class, make sure the eBook has unlimited access (can be used by multiple users simultaneously) and not single use access (will be unavailable to others while a single user is reading it). This information is displayed on the record page of eBooks. Contact the library if you’re unsure what type of access the library has for a particular eBook.
For questions regarding library instruction or library research assignments, contact the reference desk:
920-923-8096 | refdesk@marianuniversity.edu