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Reserves

Contact Information

Abby Rhoades 677-2807
Skip Burhans 677-2848

The Reserves Desk is located in the Edith Lowry Black Reserve Room on the left side of the entrance of the Library.  The collection consists mainly of books, photocopies of articles, homework solutions, sample tests and lecture videotapes.  These are course-related materials placed on reserve by the instructor.  All Reserve Materials adhere to established copyright law.

Reserves Information for Borrowers

How to Locate Reserve Materials

Use  the Library Catalog which is available on the Library home page.  Choose the Course Reserves tab and search by Course, Instructor, or Department.  Click on the desired item for the complete record

How to Borrow Reserve Materials

You must have a valid Bradley ID Card to use the reserve materials.  Use the library catalog to locate the desired item.  Give your Quick Card to the Reserve Desk student and the item will be charged to you according to the type of reserve you requested.  The professor establishes reserve type.  The date and time due will be stamped in the materials.

There are 5 categories of reserves:

• 2-HOUR CLOSED: These items may be used for two hours within the Reserve Room only.
• 4-HOUR CLOSED: These items may be used for four hours within the Reserve Room only.
• 1-DAY: These items may be checked out and taken from the Library and are due back at the same time the next day. 
• 3-DAY: These items may be checked out of the Library and are due at the same time on the third day.
• 7-DAY: These items may be checked out of the Library and are due at the same time on the seventh day.

Reserve materials cannot be renewed.  Materials must be returned when due to avoid fines.  Closed reserves may be checked out again after 2 hours and 1-day, 3-day and 7-day reserves may be checked out again after 24 hours.

How to Return Materials

It is imperative that materials be returned on time so they are available for all class members to use.
All reserve items must be returned to either the drop slot at the Reserve Desk or after hours in the outside drop slot by the front entrance.  Items returned elsewhere may result in fines if the items are overdue when they reach the Reserve Desk.

Fines

Reserve Information for Instructors

What Can Be Placed on Reserve?

The reserve collection includes books--library books as well as instructors' personal copies-- photocopies of articles (within current copyright law), copies of past tests, answer keys, sample student papers and lecture tapes.

Library reference materials, periodicals, and books borrowed on Interlibrary Loan may not be placed on reserve.

How Can an Item be Placed on Reserve?

Materials may be placed on Reserves ONLY by faculty.

1. Check the Library Catalog to see if the books are held in our library collection.  If so, fill out a Reserve Request Form, available at the Reserve Desk, and return the completed form to the Reserve Desk.
2. Personal copies and photocopies should be brought or sent to the Reserve Desk with a signed Reserve Request Form. The instructor of the course must sign the copyright permission section of this form and fill out the attached bibliographic information sheet.
3. For a book not owned by the Library, contact your liaison librarian about purchasing the book.  Materials obtained from other libraries through Interlibrary Loan cannot be placed on reserve.
4. Non-copyrighted items can be placed on electronic reserves by filling out an Electronic Reserve Form and submitting the material in clean copy, for scanning, or on computer disk.
5. Please allow five working days for processing of materials.
6. All forms pertaining to Reserves are available at the Reserve Desk.

If you have any questions or need help, contact  Skip Burhans 677-2848 or your liaison librarian.

How Long Can Materials Stay on Reserve?

• Items are kept on Reserve for one semester only
• Personal materials will be returned at the end of the semester, and library materials will be returned to the circulating collection.  Materials may be returned to Reserve for another semester.
• All returned copyrighted articles must have a new Library Reserve Request Form signed with proof that copyright permission has been acquired for that semester, or submitted with a completed bibliographic information sheet and the library will apply for copyright permission from the Copyright Clearance Center. Your department will be billed for the cost.

Copyright Information

Under the copyright law of 1978, the Library does not make photocopies for reserve use, but does accept personal or departmental copies of books and articles to be placed on reserve for a maximum of one semester.  Such materials must bear a notice of permission granted (or applied for) to be in compliance with copyright legislation Title 17, U.S. Code.

The person requesting material to be placed on reserve, by signing the Reserve Request Form, accepts responsibility for adhering to the guidelines for compliance with the copyright law.  Most especially, the following considerations apply:

• Single photocopies may be made for reserve use from a publication owned by the Library, if the Library’s copy is unavailable or in deteriorating condition.
• Single photocopies may be made for the personal use of a faculty member.
• Multiple copies must meet the test of BREVITY* and of SPONTANEITY.**
• Copies of copyrighted material may not be used for more than a single term without special permission from the copyright owner

Specifically PROHIBITED practices:

• Copying used to create or replace or substitute for anthologies, compilations, or collective works.
• Copying of consumable materials (workbooks, exercises, standardized tests, etc.)
• Copying to substitute for the purchase of books, periodicals, or publishers’ reprints.
• Copying directed by higher authority.
• Repeated copying of the same item for the same teacher from term to term.

The Library will stamp photocopies placed on reserve with the notice of copyright.

* Brevity: Articles not to exceed 2,500 words or portions of a monograph not to exceed 1,000 words or 10% of the work (whichever is less).
** Spontaneity: The decision to use a copyrighted work in such a way that there is no reasonable way a request for permission could be granted, because of lack of time.

Page updated: January 17, 2008

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