Course Reserves Guidelines and Procedures

Individual faculty may select titles from the print collection or the ebooks the Library makes available and arrange for them to be placed on Reserve.

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Physical Course Reserves

Guidelines

Accessibility

When an item is placed on reserve, it will be on closed shelves at the Library Services Desk. This will make the item less accessible to the public than it would be left in the open stacks. Remember, also, that items will be on reserve for the entire university community, not just your class.

Usage

An item placed on reserve should be assigned reading or listening – leaving "suggested" materials in the open stacks or shelving units. Our records show that materials that are not required reading or listening are seldom, if ever, used.

Number of Copies

Only one copy of a book, score, or recording may be placed on reserve for a class, unless instruction dictates the need for additional copies. One copy is meant to serve up to 25 students.

Loan Periods

You may select loan periods for each item you place on reserve based on the length of time you'd prefer.

Materials for Reserve

The following are examples of items that the library will place on reserve:

Library-owned books and scores;
Personal copies of books and scores;
"Fair use" photocopies, both personal and from items the library owns (1 article out of a periodical issue, 1 chapter out of a book, 1 short story, 1 poem, 1 map, or 1 chart);
Photocopies with properly granted copyright permission;
Class tests and problem solutions;
Recordings owned by the library or the instructor;
Recordings not copyrighted (i.e. instructor prepared recordings-single copies only); and
Instructor-prepared items, such as tests, sample papers, or class syllabi.

The following are items that the library will not place on reserve:

Library current periodicals,
Library bound periodicals,
Interlibrary loan items,
Consumable workbooks,
Course packets,
Reading packets (anthologies),
Any "fair use" photocopy that was on reserve the previous semester and does not have proper copyright permission, and
Unauthorized copies of copyrighted recordings and videotapes.

Procedural Information

Making Reserve Requests

Late in the semester, instructional faculty will receive a letter via e-mail with reserve instructions and a hyperlink to a reserve request form. Reserve lists received by the due date will be processed and ready for your students by the first day of classes; lists received after the due date will not be ready for your students when classes begin.

Late Requests

After the third week in the term, we can usually provide one-day service for placing items on reserve. Please fill out a reserve request form and return it to our desk. Reserve staff typically work M-F 7-3pm. Requests submitted mid to late afternoon will not be available to your students until the following day. Please plan accordingly.

Additions or Deletions to Reserve Lists

Material may be removed from or added to your reserve list at any time. We do encourage you, however, to initially request the entire semester’s materials as much as possible.

Photocopying

We will photocopy periodical articles or book chapters for you from materials we own, following guidelines of copyright restrictions. This generally means one copy of an article from a single periodical issue, or one chapter from a book. Scans we make are kept in our files for two years in case you want to use them again. However, they may not be used in successive semesters without proper copyright authorization.

Personal Copies

We accept your personal copies of recordings, books, scores, or photocopies to put on reserve, but please observe the following:

One copy is expected to serve about 25 students and all copyright restrictions apply.
Personal materials are returned when requested or after the end of the term.

Electronic Reserves

The library will use the following guidelines when placing items on electronic reserve:

Materials will be placed on Electronic Reserve only at the request of the instructor.
Materials submitted by the semester deadline will be ready for the first day of class. Those submitted after the deadline can take up to 2 weeks to process until about the 3rd week of class when the workload generally allows for 48 hour processing. Please plan accordingly.
All materials will be processed in the order received.
Materials submitted for electronic reserve can also be placed on print reserve at the Rod Library.
Class notes that are added throughout the semester, will appear under one title then will be sub-listed by date, unit, or chapter as specified by the faculty member.
Items on Electronic Reserve will not be available after the last day of the semester.
Fair Use Guidelines of traditional print reserves also apply to electronic reserves.
Electronic reserve systems should not include any material unless the instructor or the library possess a lawfully obtained copy.
It is the instructor's responsibility to seek copyright permission when necessary and to provide a copy for the library to keep on file. Permissions currently on file do not apply to electronic reserves.
The Electronic Course Reserves system allows links to web sites to be added to your reserve list. The library reserves the right to reject any link based on copyright restrictions.