Information for Faculty

What are they?

Course reserves are a collection of high demand materials that are selected by instructors to support their current courses. These items can be placed on short-term loan in the library to increase availability to all students. Please note that the library does not purchase textbooks.

What can I place on reserve?

• Library owned books
• Instructor owned books (this does not include copies supplied by publishers for review purposes).
• Material in which the instructor owns copyright (e.g. lecture notes)
• Material which the instructor and/or library has documented permission to place item on reserve.

How do I place something on reserve?

Faculty members may request that the Libraries and Learning Commons put specific items on reserve for their class by filling out a reserve request form online or in-person at the library. These may be items already in our collection or items belonging to the faculty member to be kept in the library for length of the term.

The faculty member decides whether the items may be loaned out and, if so, for what length of time (usually a much shorter loan period than regular circulating items).

• your name, extension, and office number
• course code and course title
• title of the item
• format of the item: book, article, cassette, video, folder, or other
• length of the Reserve: for the whole term or specific start and end dates
• loan period: 4 hours, 1-day, 2-day, 3-day, 7-day
• owner of the item: item belongs to the library, item is being permanently donated to our collection, or item belongs to and is to be returned to the faculty member

REMEMBER - Providing links in Brightspace to items from the Library Databases is an excellent way to ensure you are not violating any copyright regulations and to help Niagara College meet its sustainability goals. Linking provides greater access to material for the students.