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Library & Academic Success

Library & Academic Success

Library &<br/>Academic Success

 

What are Course Reserves?

Course reserves are materials that faculty have deemed necessary to their specific course. Course reserves can be created for both physical and digital resources.

Physical Course Reserves - Available at Campus Libraries

This is an active collection of circulating physical materials and is monitored for use. Materials are chosen by faculty and placing material on reserve, allow those items to be accessible to the greatest number of students. Reserve items usually have a check out time of 2 hours and may not leave the library. Please see our Reserves Policy.

Digital Course Reserves - Available online via the Library's systems

Digital course reserves are an electronic collection of materials available exclusively for your students through the library. You specify which materials you want and if necessary, the library will check for copyright compliance and create the links with built in authentication protocols for secure access.

 

Benefits for Faculty:

  • one physical copy of an item on reserve can allow access to all students within a class
  • library checks and ensures copyright compliance
  • allows faculty to track usage of materials over a semester
  • utilizes library's collection to augment faculty's resources
  • easy duplication of digital course reserves for subsequent semesters

 

Benefits for Students: 

  • provides access to physical or electronic materials on faculty's recommended reading lists
  • prevents monopolization of one physical source over a period of time
  • more equitable access for all within a class
  • Simultaneous access to electronic material by multiple students, 24/7 on and off campus
  • Secure access with limitation to Georgian students only
  • Options for students to print or save selected resources

Request Your Reserve Now!

It's easy!

Email us request articles, eBooks, book chapters, or media from the library's collection or something from your personal collection.

Email us

Email us at: coursereserves@georgiancollege.ca

Please provide: course name, course number, semester, item name, type of item

Requests will receive a reply within 5 business days.

Contact the library with any questions.

More Information About Course Reserves

Procedure for On-Campus Course Reserves

The following may be placed on reserve:

  • Library or personal copies of books
  • Photocopies of articles/chapters 
  • DVDs, videos or CDs
  • Study guides, study aid and workbooks 
  • Kits or models

 

Faculty:

  • Provides course code/course name
  • Sets the length of loan period
  • Advises the end date for reserve (i.e. 2 wks, end of semester) 

 

Library:

  • Verifies copyright compliance  
  • Processes reserve requests in order by date of request
  • Identifies if materials are available from electronic sources such as the library databases and provide persistent links

 

Please see the Reserve Policy here for more information or contact the Library

Removal of Print Reserves:

Item cannot be left on reserve indefinitely, however, items that are used across multiple semesters may be placed on reserve for up to three semesters and reviewed annually for renewals.

 

Returns of personal items placed on reserve may be held for you to pick up or may be shipped to your office depending on your preference.

Please note: This is an active, circulating collection and as such is monitored for use; items which have been dormant or a have a low record of use in the last academic year may be removed from the Reserve Collection. Due to space limitations, items not in use cannot be stored in the library for future semesters. 

Procedures for Digital Course Reserves

Course specific electronic reserves items are requested by faculty and accessed by their students from any location on or off campus in a few ways. They can be reached through the library's website, and Georgian's course management system Blackboard.

 

Faculty:

  1. Submit as early as possible. Requests are processed in the order in which they are received. For items requested in the first three weeks of the semester, there may be delays due to the high volume of requests.
  2. Complete as much information in the form as possible for each reading requested; Weekly reading lists or course syllabi are acceptable alternatives for sources. [Mandatory fields are:Your name and email, course name, course number, semester, item name, type of item]
  3. Scanned text documents should be in PDF format using optical character recognition (OCR).
  4. Library staff will supply you with links or an embed code for your Blackboard course shell.

 

Library:

  1. Review requests for copyright compliance.
  2. Source legal copies of materials if not provided.
  3. Create remote authenticated links or provide an embed code to the readings and send to faculty.
  4. Ensure all materials have controlled access and remove at end of semester.

 

For more details or specific questions, please email the Library.

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