How Do I Submit Items For Course Reserve Lists?

1	What is the Course Reserves service?
2	What are the advantages of using the Course Reserves service?
3	How do I request items to be put on reserve?
4	Who can place materials on reserve?
5	When should I request materials for Course Reserves?

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1. What is the Course Reserves service?

Western Libraries offers a Course Reserves service for Faculty, Instructors and Teaching Assistants to place course material into a short loan collection which helps ensure fair access to required readings for all students.

At your request, click here to go to the Electronic Request form we can place books on 2 hour, 1 day, 2 day, 3 day or 7 day loan.

Articles from periodicals or chapters from books can be photocopied and placed on 2 hour loan and in many cases we make material available electronically through the online catalogue. Some restrictions on copying of material do exist in accordance with the Access Copyright agreement - for example, only 1 article per periodical issue or 1 chapter from a book(or 10% of the book) is allowed.

For more information on copyright, please see our guide "Copyright on Campus."

The Course Reserves service is free of charge.

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2. What are the advantages of using the Course Reserves service?

• If we do not have the book you wish for Course Reserve, please contact the Reserve department of your library (listed below in section #3) to have the item considered for purchase. Purchase decisions are made in conjunction with Collections Policies for Western Libraries.

• Western Libraries has access to a vast number of periodicals. If the article you wish for reserve cannot be found through Western Libraries resources, check with your Reserve department to see if they can get the printed article through Interlibrary Loan and put it on reserve once it has arrived (articles must conform to Copyright regulations.)

• Western Libraries offers course reserve materials in electronic format when possible. These items are available 24/7 from any computer with access to the UWO Library Catalogue.

• Check with your library's reserve department about the availability of scanning excerpts from books, journals, overheads, syllabi, etc. We can also link your course homepage at your request.

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3. How do I request items to be put on reserve?

To submit course reserve requests, please use the Electronic Request Form
Some restrictions on copying of material do exist in accordance with the Access Copyright agreement - for example, only 1 article per periodical issue or 1 chapter from a book (or 10% of the book) is allowed.

If you have any questions, please email or phone the appropriate library.

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4. Who can place materials on reserve?

All Faculty, Instructors and Teaching Assistants may place material on Reserve.
Teaching Assistants must obtain the approval of the faculty member responsible for the course (faculty member's name must appear on the request form).

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5. When should I request materials for Course Reserves?

To guarantee that requested material is ready for the start of classes,please use the following Submission Deadline dates as guidelines:

• Courses which begin in September: submit by August 1
• Courses which begin in January: submit by December 1
• Intersession and Summer courses: submit at least 1 week prior to the start of the course
• Material to be purchased, or received via Interlibrary Loans is exempt from the above guarantee.

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