Reserve Materials

The preferred way to find materials on reserve is to use the UA Libraries Catalog (formerly known as ZipLINK).

If you select Reserve Lists from the UA Libraries Catalog Main Menu, you will get a sub-menu entitled Display Reserve List. From this menu, you can search for reserves by the instructor's last name if you choose Retrieve by PROF/TA; you can search for reserves by the course number (1100:336, for example), if you choose Retrieve by Course.

Finding Materials in the Reserve Room

Library materials are shelved in the Reserve Room by call number. Instructor's copies of texts are shelved in the PERSONAL COPY section behind to the Reserve Desk. Folders, often copies of articles, are filed in the file drawers behind the Reserve Room Desk. Please ask for assistance to obtain folders.

In the Science & Technology Library, all Reserve materials are shelved behind the Information Desk. Please ask for help to obtain these materials.

Check-out and Fines

All Reserve materials should be checked out even if they are used in the Reserve Room. Circulation periods are determined by the instructor who places the items on Reserve. A valid University of Akron ID or a current driver's license is needed to check-out materials.

Circulation periods and fines for Reserve materials are:

  1. Special Reserves circulate for two hours or four hours. They may not be removed from the Library. The fine is 50¢ for each hour with a maximum of $1.50 per day.
  2. One Day, Two Day, Three Day, and Seven Day Reserves are due at a specific time. These materials may leave the Library. Fines are 50¢ per day overdue.
  3. Audio-Visual Services also restricts circulation, depending upon the material.
  4. The maximum fine for any overdue material is $15.00.

Returning Reserve Materials

Reserve materials should be returned to the Reserve Room in Bierce Library, or at the Science and Technology Library circulation desk. Please do not return Reserve materials through the book slots.

**Assistance is readily available in finding and using Reserve materials. Please ask!**

For more information on Reserve Materials, please call Circulation (972-6111), or the Science & Technology Library (972-7195).

Reserve Room Policies

  1. TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT MAY BE PLACED ON RESERVE
    • Books from the Main or Science Circulating collection.
    • Personal copies (for the sake of organization and security, tattletape, a barcode, a call number label and reserve tape will be affixed to personal copies.)
    • Photocopies of material, in compliance with the Copyright Act.
    • Reference material, with the permission of the Reference Department Head in Bierce or Head of the Science and Technology library.
    • Government Documents, with the permission of the Reference Department Head.
  2. TYPES OF MATERIALS THAT MAY NOT BE PLACED ON RESERVE
    • Complete periodical issues or volumes
    • Copies of class notes, tests, exams, homework assignments, answer keys for any of the above, workbooks or any other consumable material.
    • Interlibrary Loan materials.
  3. NUMBER OF ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON RESERVE
    • The instructor should try to limit the number of titles that he places on reserve to 25 per course.
    • The Library will place on reserve all copies of a requested book.
    • The Library will provide only one photocopy of any request. Additional copies, up to four for each title, must be provided by the instructor.
  4. COPYRIGHT CONSTRAINTS
    • The Library will not, by photocopying, create an anthology.
    • If an instructor submits a request to photocopy a chapter from a book that the Library owns, the entire book will be placed on reserve, instead of a photocopy.
    • The first time that photocopied material is placed on reserve, the instructor must sign a Photocopy Release Form.
    • Photocopies of materials which have been placed on reserve during any previous term can be accommodated in several ways:
      1. By securing permission from the copyright owner for this use and providing the library with proof of such.
      2. By purchase, in sufficient quantity, through the library.
      3. By ascertaining, in certain cases, that it is permissible to copy the material, e.g. the faculty member's own work, U.S. Documents, publications of the American Psychological Association, and others, who allow copying for education purposes. (The Circulation Department has a copy of the copyright statements that appear on each of our current periodical titles.)
    • Photocopied material for which no permission to copy has been secured or proven will be placed on reserve for one semester only.
  5. ADDITIONS TO OUR COLLECTION
    • When an instructor requests that a book we do not own be placed on reserve, the Circulation Department will type a LMPR for a bibliographer's approval. The book will be charged to the instructor's department.
    • When a requested book cannot be located on the shelf for two days, or when the book has already been declared missing, the Circulation Department will type a LMPR for a replacement copy and forward that LMPR to the Head of the Collection Management Department for approval.
    • When a request for a photocopy from a journal that we do not own is received, the Circulation Department will request a copy through ILL.
  6. TIME FRAME
    • If the instructor needs reserve materials ready to circulate on the first day of the semester, he should submit his reserve request forms to the Circulation Desk in Bierce Library, to the Science & Technology Library, or to the Media Resource Center two weeks before the first day of the semester.
    • Requests not received two weeks before the semester will be handled on a first-come, first served basis, and we will not be able to guarantee a circulation date. The delay may be as long as two weeks.
  7. CIRCULATION POLICIES
    • The Circulation Department will adhere to the circulation period requested by the instructor. Only the instructor can change that circulation period.
    • Only two reserve items may be checked out at one time.
    • No reserve materials may be renewed.
  8. REMOVAL FROM RESERVE
    • At the end of each semester, the Circulation Department will remove from reserve all materials scheduled for removal.
    • Photocopied materials and personal copies will be returned to the instructor.
    • Library materials will be returned to the shelf.

Hours

Reserve materials are available during all open hours at each location.