The reserve collection, located behind the Library Services Desk of the Scarborough-Phillips Library, is a special collection of materials that are circulated for a limited period of time.

Finding Items on Reserve

If you are looking for items that have been placed on reserve, you can search for them by course or by instructor in the Library Catalog.

Placing Items on Reserve

The following items may be places on reserve:

• Library-owned books
• Personally-owned books
• Photocopies^*
• Videos
• Computer Disks*

The following items generally will not be placed on reserve:

• Textbooks
• Reference works
• Non-circulating items
• Materials borrowed from other institutions or obtained through interlibrary loan

Please inform your students that reserve materials are subject to overdue fines.  Fines are steeper than normal materials and there is no grace period.  A validated student ID card is required to checkout, photocopy, or read any reserve materials.

* The copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Instructors are responsible for submitting photocopies of printed materials and copies of software for reserve use. When you submit photocopies of a work published before March 1, 1989, please include any notice of copyright that appears in the original work. This will help readers determine whether the work is under copyright protection. If your submission does not include a copyright notice, the library will assume there was none in the original work. In accepting copied material for reserve, Scarborough-Phillips Library assumes they have been made in compliance with the "Fair Use" provision of Section 107. Photocopied material placed on reserve for more than one semester requires permission from the copyright holder.

To place items on reserve, fill out our Reserves Request Form, but please be aware of the following guidelines.