What is Course Reserve/e-Reserve?

Course Reserve is a service offered by Miller Library to all faculty to make materials beyond textbooks available to students for their classes. Reserve materials are items placed in a closed-stack area behind the Circulation desk, which may be checked out by students for restricted circulation periods set by the professor. These materials can be books, videos, CD’s, copies of journal articles, or materials authored by the professor, such as exams or class notes and may belong to the library or the professor.
 
 
Some materials can be placed online for student use through Miller Library’s new e-Reserve service. Materials that can be submitted for e-Reserve include: Some full text articles available in the library’s electronic databases, web URLs, and original documents authored by a professor.
 
 
Policies and Processing
  • Professors should submit a Reserve list to Circulation as soon as possible and at least 14 days before the class is to begin to allow sufficient time for processing.
  • All reserve lists are processed in order of receipt.
  • Professors will be notified by email after reserve items have been processed.
  • Students will need a valid student ID number to access electronic reserves.
  • Reserve materials will be removed from Reserve at the end of each semester unless a different date is indicated.
  • Personal copies of books and photocopies will be returned to faculty members by campus mail unless the professor indicates otherwise.
  • Personal property of professors will be carefully barcoded and theft-stripped. 
  • The Library cannot be responsible for replacing lost personal copies of books or articles, although every effort will be made to see that this will not occur.
 How to submit ORIGINAL materials for course reserve: Professors should submit all of the following: a Reserve Item request form, a copy of the bibliographical references to these items from their syllabus, and any personal materials they may want on reserve.  If they are submitting photocopied material from a copyrighted publication, they must also include a Reserve Copied Item form.

Begin this process at the CU Portal-- Log into your personalized Portal
  • Choose the Academics tab
  • Click on "Miller Library Forms" on the left
  • Choose either Reserve Item or Reserve Copied Item
  • (Reserve Copied Item is for copies of an article etc.)
  • Complete the requested information on the Reserve Item Form
  • And click on Submit

Complete a Reserve Item form for each item submitted for use. Submit personal items, with their submission forms to the Circulation Supervisor at the Circulation desk in Miller Library. 

Items owned by Miller Library will be pulled from the shelf by circulation staff and placed on reserve following the professor’s requests found on their Reserve Item form submitted online.

  
How to submit ORIGINAL materials for e-Reserve:  To submit items for e-Reserve please follow the instructions for regular course reserves as well as the following:
  • Professors submitting original items such as a PowerPoint presentation or a Microsoft Word document, should attach these documents in an email to Circulation@cornerstone.edu.
 
How to submit COPIES of materials for course reserve and/or e-Reserve:
This includes photocopies of journal articles, chapters from books, etc.
  • Complete a Reserve Copied Item form for each item submitted for use. This form indicates how the instructor wishes the material to be processed, what class will use it, copyright and fair use information, and bibliographic information.
 
Reserves Guidelines
  • If a professor wishes to place a photocopy on reserve at Miller Library, the professor must include the copyright notice of the photocopied material along with the copies. Student authored classroom work must contained a signed release by the student or former student granting the faculty person permission to use the student's work.
 
  • "The number of copies should be reasonable in light of the number of students enrolled, the difficulty and timing of assignments, and the number of other courses which may assign the same materials, 17 U.S.C. 107 (1) & (3)" (Talab, 75)
 
  • Either the library or the professor needs to own an original copy of the material that is photocopied and placed on reserve. If neither owns the original, copyright permission must be submitted with the article being submitted for reserves. (Information from the Internet will only be submitted if copyright permission is submitted along with it.)
 
  • If a professor wishes to use the same material for more than one semester, the professor must obtain copyright permission. The professor needs to submit a copy of such permission along with the reserve articles.
 
Finding Print or e-Reserve Materials
  • Students can search for a professor’s list of materials by going to: www.cornerstone/library and clicking on Course Reserves under the Services heading. This will bring up the Course Reserve Search Screen.  Using one of the drop-down menus, they can pull up the index of materials by either the professor’s last name or the name of the course.
 
  • After a student clicks on the instructor’s name or course number, he/she will see a list of available materials.  
 
  • Items displaying a *Click on Title for ELECTRONIC COPY AVAILABLE* message in the Format column are accessible online.
 
  • The student will be prompted for his/her name and ID number to access these electronic reserves.
 
  • Items with a Call # are available at the Miller Library Circulation Desk for limited check out times (set by instructor).
 
Contact
For information regarding reserve materials at Miller Library, contact Brian Holda via email (Brian_Holda@cornerstone.edu) or 616-222-1451.