Placing Items on Reserve
The purpose of placing materials on reserve is to make common readings
readily available to students in a short amount of time. Faculty members
may place items on either print reserve or electronic reserve (e-reserves).
Please allow at least two working days before students will need the materials
to allow time for processing.
The following guidelines should be used when placing items on reserve:
- Items which are recommended but not required reading should not be placed on reserve.
- Non-circulating items such as reference books, periodicals, government documents, and special collections items will not be placed on reserve.
- Textbooks will be placed on reserve only when the bookstore has insufficient copies to meet demand and additional copies are on order.
- Items may not remain on reserve indefinitely. All items are removed from reserve at the end of each term.
- Note that putting copies of articles or chapters on reserve may violate U.S. copyright laws. This is almost always true if copies are put on reserve for more than one term. In this case, the faculty member should request permission from the publisher. The library will not put copies on reserve for more than one term without written permission from the copyright holder. Questions concerning copyright and reserves should be addressed to Caroline Mills, Instruction/Access Services Librarian.
Placing Materials on Reserve:
Faculty may place print materials on reserve at the Circulation Desk
by completing the online Faculty
Reserve Request Form or by filling out a paper copy and giving
it to the Circulation Assistant on duty. Professors may choose to place
items on reserve for one, three, six, or twenty-four hours, or for three
or seven days.
To use e-reserves, faculty should obtain a course in Blackboard from
C&IS. If the faculty member does not have a Blackboard course, use
the Blackboard
Course Request Form to obtain one. On this form indicate that e-reserves
will be utilized, this allows the Library Circulation department access
to your Blackboard course. Alternately, the faculty member may add the
Library Circulation user account to their Blackboard course as a course
builder.
Materials to be placed on e-reserve that are already in an electronic
format may be sent to the Reserve PDFs conference in First Class accompanied
by the Faculty Reserve Request Form. Materials to be scanned should also
be accompanied by a reserve request form and should be brought to the
circulation desk or given to the Circulation Assistant on duty.
Accessing Reserves:
Print Reserve materials are kept behind the Circulation Desk and are
organized by course number. You can check what is currently on reserve
using Alcuin. You may search by either Instructor
or Course.
E-reserves are accessed via Blackboard. Log in to your Blackboard account
and choose "Reserved Readings" under the course documents button.
Booking Materials for Classroom Use
Booking requests are used to ensure the availability of library owned materials for faculty use. By booking materials, faculty members may schedule the availability of library items to correspond with their teaching syllabus. Faculty may make booking requests for all circulating library materials, such as books, DVDs or videos. These requests should be limited to items that are for a specific class or event.
Bookings can be initiated at the Circulation Desk by completing the online
Booking
Request Form or by filling out a paper Booking Request Form and giving
it to the Circulation Assistant on duty. Bookings should be made as far
in advance as possible, but at least three working days will be required
to process booking requests.
Faculty members can confirm booking requests through Alcuin using View Your Record. After logging in to your library account, all scheduled bookings will display on the left side of the screen.
Borrowing Books from Other Libraries
You can search the holdings of other libraries using a union catalog such as WorldCat or the Union Lists of Serials, or you can also search the catalogs of other libraries individually if you prefer.
Furman has circulation agreements with most colleges and universities in South Carolina, including Clemson, the College of Charleston, the University of South Carolina, and Wofford. In order to borrow books from another South Carolina college or university, you must first come to the Circulation Desk in the main library at Furman and get a South Carolina Library Borrowing Card.
Furman also has circulation agreements with Davidson, Duke, and Johnson C. Smith in North Carolina as members of the Duke Endowment Libraries group. You can borrow books from these libraries using your Palacard. If you borrow items from these libraries, you may bring them to the main library at Furman and we will return them for you.
Books and articles from any library may be obtained via Interlibrary Loan. Interlibrary loan materials usually take 5-10 days to arrive.