At the Library

The Reserves Department is located on the main floor of Copley Library, behind the Access Services desk. Many professors put materials required for a course on Hard-copy Reserve, making them available to students at the library for a limited amount of time. The loan periods range anywhere from two hours to three days.  If the loan period is less than one day, the material must be reviewed within the library.  If the loan period is one or more days, the item may be checked out.

Electronic Reserves (E-Res)

Provides online access to course materials, such as journal articles, book chapters, or homework solutions. These course materials are normally in PDF format but other formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, may be used also.  The required password to gain access to the specific course page will be distributed by the professor of that course.

Who can you contact about Reserves?

Christopher Marcum at (619) 260-5973 or e-mail at reserves@sandiego.edu

How can faculty place items on Reserve?

Electronic Reserve Requirements

1. Provide legible, good-quality photocopies. We will not attempt to clean up bad copies once they are scanned. Electronic versions of the documents can also be emailed or dropped off on CD or flashdrive to be uploaded to E-Res.
2. Single sided pages and every article cited with proper bibliographic information (either listed on the document itself or on a separate paper).
3. During the beginning of the school semester, please allow at least 7 working days for everything to be processed since there are large amounts of processing to be done at that time. During the rest of the school year, please turn in the documents to be placed on Electronic Reserves at least 5 working days before they are needed.
4. Professors are responsible for acquiring copyright permission for the articles on reserve for more than one semester (If Copley Library owns the journal or book, you do not need to seek copyright permission. Otherwise, it is the instructor’s responsibility to provide proof of copyright permission for their documents. If student work is being used, written consent from the student needs to be provided also.)
   

Print Reserve Requirements

If you would like to place anything on Hard Copy Reserve, you will need to provide the material yourself.  Any material that the library owns will have to be pulled by you and it will have to have the reserve slip properly filled out.  Please allow for at least 3 to 5 working days for everything to be processed depending on the time in the semester.  

All material will be taken off of reserve at the end of the semester, unless otherwise instructed. 

Feel free to come by and take back any personal materials that you may have used at any point in time during the semester.  Please leave a note or email if Jordan is not in so he can properly remove the material from the library’s reserve catalog.