Course Reserve is a library service offered to course instructors that enables instructional material to be loaned out to students enrolled in classes. Material placed on Course Reserve may have 2-hour or 1-day loan periods, and are checked out from the Circulation & Reserve Desk.
We can typically place any library title located in our open stacks on Course Reserve. This includes monographs, journals, and media titles (e.g. VHS, DVDs). If the title is currently on loan to a library patron, a rush recall is placed by Course Reserve staff, expediting the return of the item.
The library maintains non-circulating material in collections such as Reference, Special Collections, and the Ethnic & Gender Studies Library, and such items cannot be placed on Course Reserve.
Department and faculty owned titles, often referred to as "faculty copies", can be submitted to circulate on Course Reserve. Due to both budgetary restrictions and storage issues, the library maintains a strict policy prohibiting the purchase of textbook titles for the library collections. Instructors may submit textbooks to be made available on Course Reserve.
Department and faculty owned titles will be marked, stickered and laminated, and occasionally become damaged or lost in the service of circulation. The library will not purchase replacement copies for department or faculty owned titles that are damaged or lost.
Course readers must be bound before they are submitted. It is assumed that all necessary copyright fees have been paid for by the copy or duplication services involved. All course readers circulate on 2-hour loan periods.
Course readers occasionally become damaged or lost in the service of circulation. The library will not purchase replacement copies for course readers that are damaged or lost. Because the duplication of copyrighted material of course readers is predicated upon the understanding that there are a specific number of copies produced for a particular time period, course readers may only circulate during the academic quarter they are packaged for. Material taken from course readers cannot be placed on Electronic Reserve.
You may request library owned titles to be placed on Course Reserve, and can submit department and faculty owned material to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at the library. Our staff will assist you in completing a Course Reserve List. Please have the following information available so that we may process your Course Reserve List as quickly as possible.
Library titles that are brought directly to the Circulation & Reserve Desk are processed significantly faster than if our staff is required to pull them from the stacks.
If you are requesting only library owned titles to be placed on Course Reserve, you may fill out an electronic form version of the Course Reserve List online. You will receive a confirmation email when we begin to process your request.
You can verify that the Davidson library owns the title you wish to place on Course Reserve by searching in our Pegasus Catalog.
If you are aware that the library does not own a title, you may request a purchase order by simply submitting a Course Reserve List with the appropriate bibiliographic information. Please note the following.
Please submit requests for library owned titles, or bring department and faculty owned material to be placed on Course Reserve, one month prior to the beginning of the academic quarter. Our operation accomodates a surprisingly large number of courses and instructors, and we are quite busy processing Course Reserve material well before the start of each academic quarter.
Course Reserve staff are extremely busy during the few weeks leading up to and after the beginning of each academic quarter. Any material requested or submitted during this time may not be available during the first few weeks of classes.
Requests for library owned titles typically require several business days to be made available on Course Reserve. Library titles that are brought directly to the Circulation & Reserve Desk are processed significantly faster than if our staff is required to pull them from the stacks.
If the title is checked out to a patron, it will be rush-recalled by Course Reserve staff. This may delay the time in which the item will be made available, so be sure to request library titles well in advance.
Department and faculty owned titles are typically available by the end of the following business day after they are submitted. They are marked and stickered, and all soft-covered titles are sent to the Preservation department to be laminated before they are made available.
Course readers are typically available by the end of the following business day after they are submitted. All course readers are placed in protective manila envelopes that are marked and stickered.
Course Reserve staff are extremely busy during the few weeks leading up to and after the beginning of each academic quarter. Any material requested or submitted during this time may not be available during the first few weeks of classes.
Yes. Since they cannot be reused, we return course readers via campus mail during the interim between each academic quarter. We keep all other department and faculty owned titles that are submitted during the Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters on Course Reserve, and return them via campus mail during the Summer quarter. Material submitted for the Summer quarter are returned during the Fall quarter.
At any time, the instructor who placed a department or faculty owned title on Course Reserve can come to the Circulation & Reserve Desk to pick the item up.
Library owned titles must remain on Course Reserve until the third week of the succeeding academic quarter.
Please request or submit no more than 20 to 30 items to be made available on Course Reserve for each class you are teaching. This includes course readers, library owned titles, department and faculty owned titles, as well as documents to be posted on Electronic Reserve.
If you need to submit more than 30 items for your course, please contact Course Reserve.
Yes you can! Our Course Reserve List has a section that allows you to "reactivate" Course Reserve material you have used during a previous quarter. You must specify the quarter from which you are reactivating from. Since course readers cannot be reactivated from a previous quarter, you will have to submit any new course readers, as well as any department and faculty owned titles that the library may have returned.
Keep in mind that we only archive Course Reserve Lists for eight academic quarters, or two academic years. If you last taught the course prior to this time frame, we will not have your old Course Reserve List archived.
For record keeping purposes, please do not reactivate a Course Reserve List that was created by a different instructor during a previous quarter.
| By E-mail | - rbs@library.ucsb.edu |
| By Telephone | - (805) 893-4183 |
| By Campus Mail | - Course Reserve, Mail Code 9010 |
| In Person | - Circulation & Reserve Desk, Davidson Library |
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