Books, journal articles, book chapters, audiovisual materials, and software which are required for courses may be placed on Course Reserve. Collateral or recommended readings, including but not limited to homework solutions, lecture notes, and sample exams cannot be placed on Course Reserve. Contact UBLearns or the Law Library for other options.

Books and other materials such as videotapes are available for short loan periods. Journal articles and book chapters are available for reading and printing from computer terminals via the UB Libraries Web site.

All Course Reserve List forms are dated as they are received and are processed in that order.

Some materials requested for Course Reserve may not be immediately available in the library and will require longer processing time. They may have to be recalled from borrowers, obtained from other libraries, or ordered from publishers.

Submitting Course Reserve Lists

Use separate forms for each course. Be sure to include all of the requested information, including full bibliographic citations. Incomplete or illegible forms will be returned.

Each library will only accept and process lists for courses in the disciplines and at the levels served by that particular library. You cannot reserve materials in more than one library for the same course. Please direct requests for special handling to the appropriate Reserve Specialist.

You may submit lists electronically via the Web at: http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/forms/reserve.html
Choose "Submit Course Reserve Lists" .

You may submit paper forms:
Paper forms can be obtained from any of the University Libraries, your Departmental Secretary, or you can print a paper form here. Submit completed Reserve List Forms to the appropriate Reserve Specialist that serves your discipline.

Please do not give students required reading assignments until you are certain your reserve list has been processed and the materials are available.

You may check the status of your Reserve list via the UB Libraries Web site at: http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/creserve/.

• Type in the UB Course Number.
• Click on Go.
• From the search results page choose your course number (this will give you a list of the material on Course Reserve) (Only courses for the current semester will display)

When selecting the type of Reserve loan period for books and other materials such as videotapes, keep in mind your course deadlines, length of readings, and size of classes/sections. There are five types of Reserve:

• Two-hour/in-library loan-May be borrowed for two hours, but must stay within the library
• Two-hour/overnight-May be borrowed for overnight use two hours before the library circulation desk closes and returned within one hour of the library circulation desk opening the following day (This option is not available at the Health Sciences Library.) (A library that is open 24 hours treats 12 AM as closing and 8 AM as opening for the purpose of this checkout period).
• Twenty four hour
• Three-day loan
• Seven day

Faculty must provide a single copy of each journal article or book chapter to be placed on Course Reserve. After submitting your reserve list either electronically or in paper form, you must mail or drop off photocopies of the material at the appropriate library.

All photocopies must be 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper for scanning purposes. You must provide clean and legible copies.

Copyright Information

As we interpret the Fair Use provision of the Copyright Law, Title 17 of the United States Code, the University Libraries can accept for Course Reserve a single copy of a copyrighted article from a journal issue or a single chapter of a large copyrighted work (i.e., a book) without permission of the copyright holder.

Anthologies of copyrighted material cannot be accepted for Reserve.

Exceptions to the Copyright Law will not be made. Please refer to sections 106, 106A, 107, and 108 of the Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code) for more information.

Order Requests

If, after checking the UB Libraries Web site, you find that the University Libraries do not own the material you need, enter "Order" in lieu of a call number on the paper form or choose "Material needs to be purchased" on the electronic form.

PLEASE NOTE: It can take from three to eight weeks, or longer, to obtain and process ordered material. If the library is unable to purchase the item, you will be contacted directly. Reserve orders must be placed with the appropriate Reserve Specialist.

Personal Copies

Faculty members may place personal copies of materials on Reserve. However, the Libraries cannot be responsible for loss of or damage to such materials. Personal material will be labeled and made security sensitive. Unless otherwise requested, these items will be placed on Two-Hour/In-Library Use Only Reserve.

All personal copies will be returned by campus mail after the end of the semester unless other arrangements have been made.

Removal of Material from Reserve

All materials are automatically removed from the Course Reserve at the end of each semester. Please submit new course reserve lists for every semester.

Last Update: 19 September, 2008