Electronic Course Reserves

Loan Periods

OPTO hours

Course Reserves

·To Place Items on Reserve

·To Find Items on Reserve

When requesting that items be placed on reserve, please follow the guidelines below

To Place Items on Reserve

Please provide Instructor Name, Phone, Email Address, Course Number, Semester, Author/Editor & Title for each item.

Reserve lists should be submitted as soon as possible to allow adequate time for processing. It can often take as much as a month to have all the items returned by patrons and received back in the library. Lists are processed in the order they are received. Those requests arriving late may not be processed in time for students to have access to the material when they need it.

You can send your course reserve request to Matthew Prutsman.

Electronic Course Reserves

Faculty have the option of creating electronic course reserve pages, making many of their course reserve items accessible to their students online. The program that is used is called bSpace, which is the UC Berkeley collaborative learning environment, can be used to house electronic course reserves. For information, please visit https://bspace.berkeley.edu/.

For more help on how to use bSpace, visit the online materials from Educational Technology Services.

Personal Copies and Photocopies

Instructors can also put their personal copies of books and photocopied articles on reserve.

We encourage "batching" of photocopied articles. (e.g. "First Week's Readings" or "Readings for October"). They can be processed more quickly as a unit and are easier for students and staff to identify. Provide an adequate number of copies for the size of your class.

To place your request please contact Matthew Prutsman in the Optometry Library.

Note: The Copyright Law of the United States governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. In accepting photocopies for reserves the UC Berkeley Library assumes that the copy or copies have been made in compliance with the fair use provisions of section 107.

For additional copyright information please visit the following website:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/

To Find Items on Reserve

Course reserves are shelved behind the circulation desk and are subject to more stringent circulation policies. Reserve materials circulate as 2-hour loan unless requested differently by faculty member. Reserve materials cannot be renewed and are subject to fines for the replacement of overdue reserve material.

For more information about library reserves please visit the Library's Website at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/services/reserves.html

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