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Use these links to find information about services available to our library patrons.
Policies for circulation, reserves, and interlibrary loan are included here, as well as
links to web-based forms for interlibrary loan requests. Staff contacts for reference,
library instruction, and collections are also included. |
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Reserves
Guidelines for Reserve
- Lists are processed in the order in which we receive them. If, however, the bookstore
experiences problems in filling your orders we’ll expedite the placing of the
corresponding library books, your own personal books or chapters from missing books (in
accordance with copyright regulations) on Reserve. Please speak to Debbie or another
full-time staff person to be sure that your materials do not go into the regular queue.
- Reserve lists from the last four years are held at the Reserve Desk. If you’d like
to reuse a list you previously used, please let us know and we’ll get it to you.
- How to actually prepare a list for Reserve:
- BOOKS THAT GODDARD OWNS: List the author, title, and call-number
(from the on-line catalog) of each book requested. Please remember that books may need to
be recalled from another borrower, searched if not right on the shelf, or reordered if
lost. Please plan accordingly. Also, if you are asking for a book to be placed on Reserve
and YOU have checked it out, please let us know so we don’t waste time looking for
it. And if your class has begun and you are asking for the library’s books to be
placed on Reserve, please tell your students so they don’t check them out before we
get to them.
- BOOKS THAT GODDARD DOES NOT OWN: List the author, title, and any
other information that you have. If you need a specific edition, TELL US! Send the orders
to either the Reserve Desk or to the Acquisitions Department. Don’t forget to tell us
the class for which the books are being ordered. And remember that the ordering process
may take six to eight weeks.
- JOURNAL ARTICLES THAT YOU ARE SUPPLYING: List author and title. Please be as specific as
possible. Material should comply with copyright Law – if not, your material could be
delayed while we check it.
- JOURNAL ARTICLES THAT WE ARE COPYING: We need a FULL CITATION for each article if we are
copying them. This includes author and title of the article as well as the journal title,
volume, number, and pagination. We will make ONE copy of the article to be placed on
Reserve. If you are sending someone to the library to place materials on Reserve for you,
please be sure that they have your course information.
- If your material is already in envelopes and labeled according to our label samples,
things will definitely move along more quickly when we get to your
list. BUT, in order to keep track of all of your (and your colleagues’ ) materials, we need to have
the material processed in a standardized way so lists and materials can be found again. Therefore,
you cannot put materials on Reserve yourself.
- Materials dropped off at the Reserve Desk during the first few weeks of the semester are
not always immediately available to your students. Many of your colleagues are also
dropping off materials at the same time. Each member of the library staff has a specific
job description and responsibilities. Please do not expect non-Reserve staff to process
your materials; therefore please allow adequate time for the Reserve staff to do our job.
- Material on Reserve is listed by author and title. It is the
simplest way to keep track of the thousands of items on Reserve for any one semester and the most
compatible with Library of Congress cataloging.
- We cross list courses on Reserve to help your students find material
as long as we know WHICH courses to list. Please be consistent when you send material –
don’t list Geography one week and ID the next.
- We cannot place ILL material, rented material, or materials from
other libraries (campus or other institutions ) on Reserve. We also cannot place anthologies of your (or your colleagues’)
making on Reserve due to Copyright Law. We would be happy to place the materials on Reserve
separately for you - just send over the material, separated, with a list.
It would also be appreciated if you let us know when you are adding
additional copies of materials to Reserve as opposed to just adding materials to Reserve. This, of
course, presupposes Copyright permission. Notification that materials are additional copies speeds
the cataloging process as they can be added to an existing bibliographic record and we do not have to
change enumeration information at a later date.
- Questions can hopefully be answered by e-mailing me (dgray@clarku.edu) or calling
x7132 during the day. Please ask for Debbie or another full-time staff member. Most student assistants
work in too narrowly defined jobs and too few hours to be able to give you consistently accurate
information.
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