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services: UNO faculty & staff -- traditional reserves collection & policies.

Purpose

  • To enhance current classroom instruction by allowing eligible borrowers access to special resources for a limited amount of time
  • To insure that Library Materials which experience extremely high use are available to a wide range and number of patrons.

Placing Items on Reserve

  • Any UNO, UNMC, or UNL faculty member who is currently teaching a class or will be teaching a class the following semester is eligible to place items in the Reserve Collection. Authorized faculty library assistants may conduct Reserve Collection business on behalf of their faculty sponsors.
  • To place items in the Reserve Collection for class reading assignments, eligible faculty members must complete a Reserve Request Form which identifies the items, the length of loan period, and the class for which the item will be used. Additionally, we require that a course syllabus or Reserve Statement of Use be supplied along with the Reserve Request form. To place an item in the Reserve Collection for any other reason, faculty members should contact the Director of Public Services.
  • Requests submitted with a syllabus are processed before those with a Reserve Statement of Use.
  • Faculty members should, as a minimum, allow two working weekdays for requested reserve items to be processed and available to students.
  • Material borrowed through Interlibrary Loan may not be placed on reserve.
  • Book and Media items not owned by the library may be requested for purchase. Those items will be ordered on a rush basis, but may still take a couple of weeks to be acquiring and placed on reserve, so plan accordingly.
  • Reference collection materials may not be placed on reserve without the approval of the Access Services Librarian. Periodicals may not be placed on reserve.
  • The Reserve Collection will operate within the approved guidelines for educational use of copyrighted materials.
  • Reserve items may be added or deleted at any time, either by the faculty member who placed the item on reserve or his/her faculty library assistant. Faculty members will receive a copy of his/her Reserve Collection holdings as updated upon request.
  • It is library policy to "target" all personal copies placed in the reserve collection, permitting Items to be tracked by the exit gate detection system. Faculty members who do not want their personal copies targeted need to inform the Reserve assistant.
  • In consideration of limited space, circulation of items, and copyright concerns, the Access Services Librarian and the Director of Public Services will consider for removal items that are not required for current classes and experience little use.
  • All UN system cardholders, reciprocal students, and other valid university ID cardholders are eligible to check out reserve materials.

Reserve Collection Circulation Options

  • 2 hours - library use only.
  • 4 hours - outside library use.
  • 1, 3, and 7 days.

Arrangement of the Reserve Collection

  • The Traditional Print Reserve Collection is divided into two main groups:
    • Cataloged/classified library-owned items.
    • Personal copies of books and other bound materials.
      •  Personal copies are kept on the "Personal Copy Shelves," often referred to as the PCS collection, arranged by the name of the faculty member who owns the book, the author of the book, and the title of the book.
  • E-Reserves are available online and searchable by course number or name of the faculty member.

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