LIBRARY

Placing Materials on Regular Reserve

To place books, videos, other A-V items, or class exams on Regular Reserve:

1.  Submit Request for Course Reserves

     You may use the request form,  Print and submit to the library

2. Bring the materials to be put on reserve to the Circulation/Reserve Desk.

All these materials will be put on “2-Hour Reserve - to be used only in the library” unless otherwise specified.

Materials will be processed as quickly as possible in the order in which they are received.  Allow for one week’s time at the beginning of the semester.

Materials accepted for Reserve:

Library-owned Materials:  Any regularly-circulating materials from any Penn State University library may be placed on course reserve.

• Materials “on-shelf” at Mont Alto Campus Library should be brought to the Circulation/Reserve Desk with the “Incoming Reserves” slip attached to them.

• Materials that are checked-out to users can be recalled by the Library Assistant.  Please note that items being recalled will require up to an additional 10 days processing time to allow for the return of the item.

• Materials available at other PSU Library locations can be requested by the Library Assistant.  Please allow for an additional week for processing to allow for mailing time.

Instructor-owned items and photocopies:  Faculty may bring in their own materials to place on reserve.  Please note that we strive to comply with copyright guidelines when doing this.  The materials that we can put on reserve include:

• Personally owned books or original videos, DVDs, CDs, records or audio cassettes.  (Copied audio or video materials will not be accepted.)

See Note 1 below.

• Photocopies of a chapter(s) from a book will be accepted if the total number of photocopied pages is less than 15% of the entire book.  (Selections from some anthologies may not be accepted.) Copyright guidelines specify that these copies can be used for only one semester.  Permission from the Copyright Clearance Center must be obtained before each new semester.   See Note 2 and 3 below.                       
• Photocopies of journal articles will be accepted as long as there are no more than two articles from the same issue of a journal to be placed on reserve.  Copyright guidelines specify that these copies can be used for only one semester. Permission from the Copyright Clearance Center must be obtained before each new semester.  See Note 2 and 3 below.

Notes:

1. A “Penn State University Libraries” barcode label, as well as other reserve labels, will be put on each personal item to identify it as “reserve material”.  Please note that the library cannot be held responsible for personal copies of materials that become lost, damaged or stolen while on loan for patrons.

2. All photocopied materials must include complete citation information in order to be placed on reserve.  Forms are provided at the Circulation/Reserve Desk or may be completed online.

3. Photocopied materials may also be placed on “E-Reserve” (Electronic Reserve), which provides Web access to Course Reserves for students and faculty via the CAT.  Theses can be accessed from any computer using an Access ID and password and a current Adobe Acrobat program. The copies put on E-Reserve will be checked for copyright clearance automatically by the staff in the Reserves Department at University Park, eliminating the need for the instructor to obtain the copyright clearance before each semester.

4. The instructor must pick up all reserve items at the end of the semester.

More information about reserves, including copyright policies, can be found at the Mont Alto Campus Library Circulation/Reserve Desk. Contact Peggy Angelovich at 717-749-6182 or by email at mka11@psu.edu.