Reserves Information for Faculty

For reserve submissions please make sure you print, fill out, and attach the library's Reserve form.

Print Reserves:

Faculty may use the Print Reserves Services to make readings and audiovisual materials available to COCC and OSU Cascades Campus students for limited time periods. Required texts may also be put on reserve. 

Faculty submitting materials for Print Reserves need to keep the following in mind:

• Instructors are responsible for fair use of copyrighted reserves materials. Before you place copyrighted materials on reserve, please refer to our library's Copyright Guidelines for Print  Reserves.
  
  For complete information on Copyright visit the U.S. Copyright Office homepage or have a look at this great web page: Crash Course in Copyright.
                           
• The library needs a minimum of 3 working days to process Print Reserve materials before these items are available for student use.  Additional time may be needed at the beginning of each term, when faculty bring their reserve requests at the same time.
                    
• Submit reserve materials to our Circulation Manager at the Library Circulation Desk along with a Reserves form.  

E-Reserves

Faculty may use Electronic Reserves Services for materials such as course syllabi, sample exams or student papers, class lecture notes, problem sets, articles from journals, and portions of books.

Materials are scanned into the system and are available for student use 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.  The advantage of Electronic Reserves is that it provides remote access to reserve materials that traditionally have been available only in the library and during library hours.  Another advantage is that E-Reserves eliminates the wait for items that have been checked out by other students, something that can be particularly important for larger classes.

Faculty submitting materials for E-Reserves need to keep the following in mind:

• Instructors are responsible for fair use of copyrighted reserves materials. Before you place copyrighted materials on reserve, please refer to our library's Copyright Guidelines for Electronic Reserves.
                   
  For complete information on Copyright visit the U.S. Copyright Office homepage or have a look at this great web page: Crash Course in Copyright.
                           
• The library needs a minimum of 7 working days to process Electronic Reserve materials before these items are available for student use.
                
• Paper documents need to be provided in an 81/2 x 11 inch format.
              
• Materials already in electronic format (Word files, PowerPoint, etc.) may be submitted on a computer disk.
       
• Paper copies submitted for E-Reserves should be clear and readable.
                 
• Scanned documents create large files and may cause downloading or printing problems.  It is advisable that each single item submitted for E-Reserves is limited to 15 pages or less.
                   
• Submit reserve materials to our Circulation Manager at the Library Circulation Desk along with a Reserves form.  

E-Reserve materials are in PDF file format, which requires that the Adobe Acrobat Reader is installed on a computer (most computers already have the Acrobat Reader).