Print Reserves - Procedures

Please provide the Circulation Department with the following materials at the
time of submission:
1. A copy of your course syllabus
2. Library Reserve Form with complete bibliographic information.
3. Copyright Bibliographic Information Form
4. Student Permission Form (if applicable)

Please be advised:
  • Circulation staff will need a minimum of 2 working days to process
    materials prior to their availability to students.  Additional time may
    be required if copyright permission is needed.
  • If a book owned by LCSC is requested for Reserves, please bring a
    copy to the circulation desk.  The faculty is asked to bring Reserve
     books to circulation to help ensure they have the exact material
     they want their students to read.      If it is currently checked out,
    inform a staff member and it will be recalled and placed on Reserve
    as soon as possible.
  • Faculty can place 1 copy on Reserve for every 10 students, not to
    exceed 4 copies per course.
  • The maximum number of separate items that faculty may place on
     Reserve for a course is 15.

Print Reserve Guidelines
 Faculty may place a variety of materials on Reserve including: books, course
syllabus, lecture notes, sample exams, and journal articles.  Instructors may
provide personal copies of books and/or articles.  Re-use of published material
requires permission from the publisher. 

Please note: permission may be denied or the cost to re-use may be
prohibitively expensive.
Guidelines for placing photocopies on Reserve:
  • a single copy of an article from a periodical or newspaper
  • a single chapter of a book
  • a short story, essay or poem
  • a graphic representation
Only one article from each issue of a journal or one chapter from each book
can be duplicated for the same course.
What may not be put on Reserve
  • complete issues or volumes of periodicals
  • materials obtained via Interlibrary Loan
     
How to Put items on Reserve for your students:

You Can Help Us Give You Better Service If You:
1. Deliver materials to the Circulation Desk with a completed
Library Reserve Form.
2. Submit a Copyright Bibliographic Information Form to each item
to be placed on Reserve.
3. Complete a Student Permission Form for student papers to be
placed on Reserve.
4. Allow 2 days for processing.
It is very important that this form be filled out with the same information that
you give to your students.  In order to find a Reserve item for a student, the
Circulation staff relies on the information you give them.  If the information the
student has does not match the information we were given, the students may
go away empty-handed.
Materials may remain on reserve for one semester.  Under the provisions of
the Fair Use sections of the copyright law,  publisher approval for continued
use is required beyond one semester. The Circulation Department will submit
a Repeated Use request to the Copyright Clearance Center on behalf of LCSC
faculty.  To comply with copyright provisions, at the end of each semester,
items will be removed from reserve status and returned to the faculty member
or to the library's circulating collection.