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What Are Course Reserves?

The Library's Course Reserves service allows faculty and instructors to make recommended or required course materials in a variety of formats--books, articles, media, calculators, and even rocks.

These materials are held at the Circulation Desk and checkout times are limited (usually 2 hours) to allow all students in a particular course to share the materials equitably.

Due to cost, textbooks are by far the most requested item for Course Reserves. Faculty may donate or loan a textbook to the library and we will then make it available to the students for use in the library for a short check out period. Faculty may retrieve any items loaned to the library at any time.

Special Note for Biology & Chemistry Faculty: Course Reserves include a copy of both the Biology and the Chemistry lab manual which can be copied instead of printing. This will save your students time. Due to high demand, we recommend printing well before the class start time.