Reserves Information for Faculty

To submit reserves: print, fill out, and attach the library's Reserve form or fill out and submit the new online form!

Print Reserves:

Faculty may use the Print Reserves service to make readings and audiovisual materials available to COCC and OSU-Cascades Campus students for limited time periods. COCC and OSU-Cascades library-owned items may be put on reserves, as well as required and/or supplementary texts. Books or AV not owned by the library must be provided by the faculty. 

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 2 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 many faculty submit reserve requests at the same time. To ensure that material is ready by the first day of the term, please submit reserves items one week prior to the beginning of the term.
                    
• Submit reserve materials at the Library Circulation Desk along with a Reserve form (online form here).  

E-Reserves

Faculty may use the Electronic Reserves service 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 e-Reserves is that it provides remote access to reserve materials that traditionally have been available only in the library, 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 4 working days to process e-Reserve materials before these items are available for student use.
                
• Paper documents need to be provided in an 8 1/2 x 11 inch format.
              
• Materials already in electronic format (Word files, PowerPoint, etc.) may be submitted electronically.
       
• 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 at the Library Circulation Desk along with a Reserve form (online form here).  

E-Reserve materials are in PDF file format, which requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Most computers already have the Reader, but it can be also be downloaded for free by clicking on the icon below: