ACADEMIC COURSE RESERVE INFORMATION

    PUT PHYSICAL ITEMS ON RESERVE:

In order to have RESERVE materials available for students' use by the first day of classes, requests to place items on Reserve should be submitted 6 weeks in advance to the Art, Music, Olin, or Science Library.  A separate request must be submitted for each title, whether the request is for a book, photocopy, personal copy, video, etc.  REQUESTS SUBMITTED AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF CLASSES MAY TAKE A MINIMUM OF 72 HOURS AND AS LONG AS 2 WEEKS OR MORE BEFORE THE ITEMS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS.

Requests for reserve items may continue to be submitted at any time throughout the semester.  Please indicate a realistic date the material will be assigned to the class.  The date will be used to triage the requests when necessary; otherwise requests are generally processed in the order in which they are received.   A couple of days might be needed to process even a "rush" request.

For previously taught courses the old request forms have been returned to the academic department.  These may be reused for items being requested again for reserve.  Please check the information for accuracy.  If requesting a newer edition, please submit a new request.

Most items from any Wesleyan library may be placed 'on reserve' at the Reserve desk of your choosing (e.g.: Art books my be 'on reserve' at Olin.) 

At the Music Library please submit a green Reserve Form, available at the Scores & Recordings office.

Items on reserve may be borrowed for approximately a 2, 4, or 24 hour period.  A 2 hour loan period will be assigned for items that do not have a load period specified.  Some Art Library items may be designated as 'in-house' use only.

You can display an alphabetical title list of items on Reserve for an individual course by selecting the Course Reserve tab from the main menu of the Online Wesleyan Library Catalog and following the prompts.

Submitting a copy of your syllabus with your readings can help with reserve processing.

Books:
Reserve reading is primarily intended for required readings for courses.  Recommended readings may be placed on reserve, but we ask faculty to include such readings only if they reasonably anticipate substantial use of them by students.  If a new book is being requested, please submit the request early.  It may take several weeks to obtain an item from the publisher.  Please estimate the number of students registered for your course.  One book per 15 students is the standard.  For books owned by Wesleyan, please feel free to gather items from the stacks and bring them directly to reserve staff.

Serials/Periodicals:
Bound or unbound periodicals are not put on reserve.  Please submit articles as photocopies or request web access to the article.

Photocopies:
Submit items with one completed reserve request form for each title, not each copy.  It is very important that the author and title supplied on the reserve request is the same as it appears on the course syllabus, otherwise students have difficulty in retrieving the correct item.  ALL COPIES OF A READING SHOULD BE SUBMITTED AT ONE TIME.  Additional copies submitted at a later time take much longer to process.

Each photocopy is to be submitted in an individual folder supplied by the academic department.  Reserve processing will use the top 3 inches of the front of the folder to affix a label and barcode, so please leave this area blank.

===> Each photocopy must include a copy of the title page and verso (page with detailed publication/copyright information.)  For copyright guidelines please access Wesleyan's IP web site at:  http://www.wesleyan.edu/ip/.  If you have further copyright questions, see contact information at:  Reserve Staff Contacts.

Recordings:
Using the Music Reserve form, faculty may:  1) request that a library cd or lp be placed on reserve; 2) request that the staff compile selected library recordings onto cassettes; or 3) submit personal copies of recordings.

Videos:
A reserve request must be submitted for library owned, department, or personal videos used by a course.   Unless otherwise instructed by the reserve staff, AV normally shelved at the Science Library is generally best put 'on reserve' at the desk that circulates other items for your course.

Personal Items:
Personal items may be placed on reserve at the owner's risk.  The Library does not accept responsibility for items damaged or lost.  Personal monograph copies will have a barcode and date due slip attached directly to the item unless Reserve personnel are notified to use a mylar wrapper.  A reserve request form must be submitted for each unique title/edition/medium.

Information For Student Run Forums:
Reserve requests for student fun forums, must have the sponsoring faculty's information in the 'faculty name' area, etc.  Toward the bottom of the form in the 'Comments' field, please include the student organizer's name and phone number.

End of Semester Return of Reserve Materials:
At the end of the semester all reserve request forms, photocopies and personal items are returned to the academic department.

   REQUEST ONLINE (WEB) ACCESS TO RESERVE MATERIAL:

If you would like readings available online to allow student access to the documents at any time, and from any computer connected to the Wesleyan network, please provide a complete citation of the reading and on the reserve request indicate 'WEB ACCESS'.  When submitting a request via the online library catalog, in the comment field type WEB ACCESS followed by the complete citation as indicated at the top of the online form.

Online reserve material requires the same copyright clearance that is necessary for any reserve material.  Copyright guidelines will only permit us to make certain items available online.  The library will obtain the necessary copyright clearance for material to be used online.  Some publishers will not allow their publications to be accessed online.  If this is the case, you will be contacted as soon as we know.  The reading will then be available in book or photocopy format at the reserve desk.  For copyright guidelines please access Wesleyan's IP web site at:  http://www.wesleyan.edu/ip/.  If you have further copyright questions, see contact information at:  Reserve Staff Contacts. 

A paper copy of a digitized reading will only be available to borrow from a reserve desk if a copy is either provided by the academic department or the reserve request specifically and clearly indicates that both a digitized reading and a paper copy is to be processed for the newly digitized reserve reading.  When the source of a reading is from the web, a hard copy will only be available at the reserve desk if one is provided by the academic department.  Photocopies returned to the academic department from prior semesters may be re-supplied for circulation.

If you have a clean copy of the reading, title page, and verso (free from highlighting, extensive underlining, and marking, all of which make scanning difficult) you may submit it in a folder, along with the reserve request form.  The paper copy you submit will be made available for your students to borrow from the reserve desk.  If you do not already have a photocopy of the reading, or if your copy is not legible, and the book or journal is owned by CTW, you may simply provide us with a complete citation, and we will pull the source and digitize the reading from the original.

Access the online course reserve material from the Library Home Page under the 'RESERVES' section.  Additional information about accessing online course reserve material is available from the library home page by clicking on the 'TIPS' link under the RESERVES section.

   SUBMIT RESERVE REQUESTS VIA LIBRARY CATALOG:

The CTW Online System may be used to submit reserve requests on most CTW (Conn. College, Trinity, and Wesleyan) owned book or video items that are to be placed on reserve for a course.  Electronic reserve requests are continually emailed to reserve staff, however reserve staff may only retrieved the requests early each weekday morning.

Electronic reserve requests are not saved in computer format from semester to semester.  The paper version of the request will be returned to you at semester's end and can be resubmitted for any future semester's Reserve use.  Please check the information for accuracy prior to resubmitting.

If needed, print the following directions for submitting a Reserve Request electronically via the online library catalog.
 

Directions to submit an electronic request via the online catalog: ***If your library id is blocked due to an overdue recall or too many overdue items you will not be able to use the following until the return or renewal of the offending items.*** Locate the title in the online catalog. View the specific title by clicking on the title link Click the REQUEST button toward the top of the screen If not previously done, you might be asked to login using either your WES ID (number on the front of your id card) or barcode (the number on the back of your id card.) Message: 'You have no requests available in this database' might mean that a title wasn't selected.  Go back and 'view' a specific title or perform a search and then view. Choose, from the drop down menu, the Course Reserve Request for the Reserve desk from which the item is to be circulated. Click on the 'OK' button Scroll down to view directions for supplying the necessary Reserve information Brief bibliographical information about the chosen item will be displayed. Enter id: you will be asked to re-enter the same id number used to access the Request function Comment field: Please supply the following information.  If you are submitting many requests, after entering the information below on the first request, copy the static information from this request to paste into your next request. Faculty Name: last name, first (only needed if request is not submitted under faculty id) Course ID: (e.g.: govt101) Info to circulate hard copy: ****Loan Period: (e.g.: 2h, 4h, 24h * 2hr will be used if not supplied) ****# of Copies: (e.g.: 1 copy) Semester/yr: (e.g.: spr 04) Include Additional Comments (e.g.): If requesting part of a multi-volume set, please indicate volume(s) needed WEB ACCESS: include author, title of reading, chapter, page range and if from a journal include: vol., no., year     Sample:    Smith, Tom    govt101    2h    1 copy    spr04    WEB ACCESS: Brown. "The rise of the empire", (vol. 4, no. 1; 1997) pp. 7-15 To additionally request a photocopy or the source for circulation of a newly digitized reading, also state "PAPER COPY ALSO NEEDED" or submit a separate request.   Leave the following 2 fields with the preset values - they are not used for reserve requests: 'Pick Up At' : Olin Circulation 'Not Needed After' : 30 Days Click on the Submit Request button at the bottom of the screen.  A successful submission will be indicated.

Directions for Special Cases:
Yes, you may request an item that is 'on loan', 'missing', 'lost', or other status. Most items belonging to Trinity College or Connecticut College may be place on reserve at Wesleyan.

Title Not in CTW:
Either submit a WEB Reserve Request or a paper reserve request for books/videos not owned by CTW.  Reserve staff will submit an Order Request to Acquisitions for the item.

 

  WEB RESERVE REQUEST FORM & INFO:

Click here to access the WEB Reserve Request form. 

After submitting the WEB Reserve Request Form the information is emailed to Reserve staff.  A confirmation screen displays your entries.  You may print the confirmation screen if you want to save the information for your records.

 

   PAPER RESERVE REQUEST FORM & INFO:

Requests may be submitted by using a WORD document paper reserve request form.  Paper request forms are also available from Reserve staff and/or your department administrative assistant.

Use WORD to complete the form or print the page to manually fill out.  After completing the form, bring to the Reserve staff, or send via campus mail.  (Hint: If submitting many requests for the same course, fill out the name/class information at the top of the form and make photocopies.)

One request must be submitted per title/edition.  Photocopies/course packets must have one completed request form per title.  Please make sure the citation is complete for each reading.  The information requested will allow processing to proceed with minimum delay.

Please type or print clearly the information.  Requests for books or videos should be submitted with call number, author, title, and edition (indicate 'any' if a specific edition is not required.)

For Music Reserves please fill out the green Reserve Form available at the Scores & Recording Office.

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Last updated: 05/06//2008.