Course Reserves

Course reserves are personal or library owned books, textbooks, articles, DVDs, videos, copies of sample tests, quizzes, research papers, or other supplemental materials that may be placed in the library reserve collections. Reserve materials are for library use or limited check-out periods to ensure availability to students in your classes. Reserve material records are accessed via our online library catalog under course and/or instructor name.

Current Textbooks

It is important to students to have copies of current course textbooks placed on reserve at each campus on which the course is offered. Many of our students are unable to afford copies of their new textbooks and often textbooks are unavailable in our campus bookstores at the start of the semester. Putting copies of your current textbooks on reserve can help your students to successfully keep up with course assignments from the first day of class. Please check with your campus library to see if a copy of your current textbook is already on reserve. If not, please try to get a personal copy to us or, if that is not possible, give us the title and edition and we’ll try to locate a copy.

Placing Items on Reserve

1. Bring the reserve materials and a copy of your course syllabus to a library circulation desk along with a completed Reserve Request Form.
2. Please complete one form for each course. It is important to specify the loan period and the date the material is to be removed from the reserve collection. You can pick up your personal reserve materials after the date you specified for removal from the reserve collections, or we can also send the material back to you via campus mail by request. No reserve materials will be held for longer than the current academic year.
3. We cannot photocopy items for reserve. Please bring your photocopied readings.
4. No library reference materials, periodicals, or interlibrary loaned materials may be placed on reserve.
5. We cannot assume responsibility for instructor’s copies not returned by students.
6. To ensure that your material is available to your students when needed, please allow a minimum of 5 working days for processing your reserve materials.

You are responsible for knowing if your reserve materials meet copyright requirements. If library staff determines that any submitted materials constitutes copyright infringement, the materials will be returned to you so necessary copyright permission can be obtained. AV materials and all readings photocopied from books or journals placed on reserve will contain a notice of copyright. See the links below for copyright guidance:

Copyright, Fair Use, and Library Reserves (from the University of Oregon)

Fair Use as it Relates to Library Reserves (from the University of Texas System)

General Information Regarding Fair Use (from the Library of Congress)