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Placing Materials on Reserve

This service is for SRJC faculty who wish to place course materials on reserve for their students.

 

Why Reserves

 

If you would like all or most of the students in your class to read the same materials, it's a good idea to place the materials on reserve for the semester during which your class is taught. Reserve items are placed in a closed stack area and are given shorter borrowing periods so that everyone in your class gets a chance to use them.

 

Almost anything you'd like your students to read or use can be placed on reserve, including books, pamphlets, CDs, excerpts from books and photocopies of articles (within the the current copyright guidelines), lecture notes, copies of past exams, answer keys, and sample student research papers. Even boxes of rocks have been placed on reserve for geology classes. Headphones are available at the Doyle Library Reserve Desk and the Mahoney Library Circulation Desk for use with class-related CDs and Web pages.

 

Check-Out Times

 

You determine the loan period when you place an item on reserve for your class. There are four options:

 

  • Two hour - Library use only
  • Four hour - May be taken out of the Library
  • One day - Due in 24 hours
  • Three day - Due in 72 hours

Placing Items on Reserve

 

If you'd like to place an item on reserve, we need your cooperation in the following ways:

 

  1. Check the catalog to see if the book is in the collections. If so, bring it to the fourth floor Reserve Desk in the Doyle Library or to the Circulation Desk in the Mahoney Library, and fill out the top portion of the "On Reserve" form for each separate title.
  2. You may order books that are not in the collections by contacting either the Acquisitions Department at ext. 4553 or one of the Reserve Desks (Doyle Library - ext. 4758; Mahoney Library - ext. 3974), or by using the online Book Purchase Request Form. Books that are not in the college Bookstores need to be ordered as early as possible so that the materials arrive in time for the start of your class. The SRJC Libraries cannot purchase "answer-key" type books.
  3. Please allow a three-day lead time for the Reserve Department to process reserve materials once they are received.
  4. If you wish to place personal copies of books or articles on reserve, bring your personal copies to the Reserve Desk and fill out the top portion of the "On Reserve" form. Your personal copy will be returned to you when it is removed from reserve status.

 

Please note that the SRJC Libraries are not responsible for the replacement of personal copies that are lost, stolen, delinquent, or damaged by students.




Copyright Guidelines for Course Reserves

 

  1. You may place chapters of books and/or articles from newspapers and magazines on reserve in the Libraries. The Reserve Department will monitor the length of materials to ensure that the materials placed on reserve do not constitute a major portion of the original work.

  2. The "notice of copyright" stamp must be placed on the first page of each copy placed on reserve.

  3. The Reserve Department can place photocopied materials on reserve for one semester only without copyright permission. At the end of the semester, the material will be removed from reserve unless copyright permission is received by the department.

  4. The instructor placing materials on reserve is responsible for obtaining copyright permission. Examples of letters requesting copyright permission are available from the Reserve Department.

  5. A maximum of nine copies of any one item may be placed on reserve.

  6. Every copy placed on reserve must indicate full bibliographic information for the original source of the copy. This means:
    • Book: Author, title, edition, publisher, place of publication, year and page number(s)
    • Periodical: Author, title of article, name of periodical, date of issue and page number(s)
    • Newspaper: Author, title of article, name of newspaper, date of issue, section and page number(s).

  7. You are welcome to place class "readers" on reserve if they have been cleared for copyright.