Course Reserves for Instructors
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Joanna Bailey
Course Reserves Manager
course.reserves@wwu.edu
(360) 650-7593
About Course Reserves
Course Reserves is a library service that provides access to course materials. Requests are processed and placed on Canvas under a "Library Resource - [term year]" tab.
You can place the following types of materials on course reserve:
- Library-owned print texts and journals (digital copies may be substituted when available)
- Library-owned DVDs and other analog media
- Instructor-owned print books and DVDs (barcodes and call number stickers will be affixed)
- Library-licensed ebooks
- Library-licensed articles (This excludes electronic Harvard Business Review content)
- Library-licensed streaming videos
- Book chapters and articles scanned from the library’s print collection
Physical or electronic materials requested through Summit and Interlibrary loan including articles cannot be used on course reserve.
Materials can be placed on reserve on a quarterly or yearly basis. Libraries personnel will review materials for accessibility and copyright compliance before placing items on reserve. Reserves do not automatically renew and will need to be updated at least once a year. Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
FAQ
Course instructors or their representatives can submit reserve requests.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Use the Course Reserves Request Form
- Email: Course Reserves
You can request the library purchase materials via your ILLiad account. You can also indicate “purchase request” on the course reserve request form. Physical or electronic materials, including articles, requested through Summit and Interlibrary loan cannot be used on course reserve.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Requests are processed in the order they are received.
- To better ensure readiness, requests need to be submitted 3 weeks prior to the start of the quarter.
- Reserve processing may take up to 7 days to complete. Processing may take longer if the item needs to be purchased, licensed, scanned, or recalled from another patron.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Reserve processing may take up to 7 days to complete. Processing may take longer if the item needs to be purchased, licensed, scanned, or recalled from another patron.
- Check the Date! Outdated “Library Resources” tabs are not active, and items are not available to your students.
- Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu to renew your course reserves.
- See "When should I submit my reserve list?" FAQ
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- A ‘Library Resources - [term year]’ tab is created and added to the course Canvas page. The list includes direct links to all electronic reserve items and call numbers of physical reserves; this is the ONLY way students can access electronic items.
- If the instructor is teaching multiple sections of the same course, each section will have a separate page in Canvas (unless cross-listed by the instructor), each of which will have a ‘Library Resources – [term year]’ tab added.
- Check the Date! Outdated “Library Resources” tabs are not active, and items are not available to your students.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Students must access electronic reserves through Canvas.
- The ‘Library Resources - [term year]’ tab includes links to all electronic reserves for this course plus availability and location of physical items (HH 2nd floor).
- Check the Date! Outdated “Library Resources – [term year]” tabs are not active, and items are not available to your students.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Print book and journal loan period options are: 3 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 7 days. DVDs loan for 1 day.
- Publishers determine license availability and loan terms for licensed ebooks, with 1 day being the shortest loan period. Library created digital reserves circulate for 3 hours.
Please see Library FAQs 116763
Use the Report a Problem button in OneSearch if you are having trouble with an electronic resource (ebooks, streaming videos, articles). For other course reserves problems, contact course.reserves@wwu.edu
- Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression. U.S. copyright law provides copyright owners with the following exclusive rights (www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/).
- Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use. (www.copyright.gov/fair-use/)
- Materials provided as part of the Western Libraries course Reserves service, linked in the ‘Library Resources-term year’ tab in Canvas have been reviewed for copyright and fair use.
- Library Resources are provided as part of WWU Western Libraries course reserves service pursuant to Section 107 of U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 107) for use by currently enrolled students for private study, scholarship, or research. Do not share outside of the course for which this has been assigned.
- Contact Jenny Oleen, Scholarly Communications Librarian, jenny.oleen@wwu.edu, (360) 650-2613.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- An email reminder to pick up personal items will be sent on the last day of quarter.
- Pick your items up at the Circulation Desk during open hours.
- Items not claimed after 1 year will be treated as donations or recycled.
- Review your course reserves at Library Resources/Course Reserves instructor archives.
Contact course.reserves@wwu.edu for assistance.
- Book chapters and articles scanned from the library’s print collection are screen reader compatible.
- Library Resources are provided as part of WWU Western Libraries course reserves service pursuant to Section 107 of U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 107) for use by currently enrolled students for private study, scholarship, or research. Do not share outside of the course for which this has been assigned.