About
Course Reserves

Faculty – Items That Can Be Placed on Reserve

1. Items that may be placed on reserve:
   1. Materials that are part of the library collection *
      1. A photocopied article from a periodical, a chapter from a book (please see fair use guidelines which discuss the proportion of the amount of the work copied to the work as a whole), a short essay, a short story, a short poem, a chart, a graph, a diagram, a drawing, a cartoon, a picture. These items, if from copyright protected works, must be in compliance with fair use guidelines. Please see Guidelines for copyright compliance
   2. Faculty’s personally owned materials **
   3. Student projects ***
   4. Lecture notes / Library staff created guides.
   5. Course notes

   *Library owned reference books and periodicals will not be placed on reserve

   **Personally owned materials will be accepted for Reserve status with the understanding that items are placed at owner’s risk and that items to be listed in the Reserve Book Room must be processed.

   ***Permission from all students involved in a project must accompany Student Projects being placed on Reserve

2. Items that may not be placed on reserve
   1. Consumable materials such as workbooks, exercise books, standardized practice test books
   2. Interlibrary loan items or materials borrowed from other libraries are not eligible for reserve status
   3. The library may not place full-text articles from electronic databases on reserve.