Overview

Any Cabrillo College instructor may have course books, articles, videos, and other materials made available in the library for short-term loaning to their students through the Course Reserve system.

How the Course Reserve System Works

The course reserve system is partnered with the library's online catalog. Students can search the online catalog course-reserve system. Course reserves are accessible by either the instructor's name or the course title. Each item placed on reserve will have either a call number or a library assigned unique "item number". Students have to look up the course, check for the presence of materials on reserve, and present the item number or library call niumber to the circulation staff for retrieval. Students must have a valid library card to use course reserve materials.

How to Place Materials on Course Reserve

Instructors may place either library owned materials or personal copies of instructional materials on reserve for a given class. Instructors may print the Reserve Materials Form from here or come to the library Circulation Desk and fill out a Reserve Materials Form. The Reserve Coordinator, Anna Avila (479-6148), will process submitted materials. All materials, including personal copies, will have labels, barcodes and date due slips attached to them. The library circulation staff must have at least 48 weekday hours for preparation of materials for course reserve. Instructors may request that the library purchase single copies of materials for course reserve. At least two months is necessary for the purchase and processing of materials for reserve. Please allow 48 weekday hours for reserve processing.

Under no circumstances should library owned materials (books or videos) be assigned to a class prior to placing the materials on reserve.

Loan Periods

Materials are checked out to students for a period of time (loan period) which is selected by the instructor.   Loan periods are:

•  1 hour use, 2 hour use, or 4 hour use
•  2 hour use with option for overnight loan from 2 hours prior to closing time
•  24 hour, 48 hour, or 72 hour check-out
•  7 day check out

Text Books: The Student Senate funds a project to purchase SINGLE copies of the most expensive textbooks required for courses. As of Fall 2005 the library reserves had a single copy of every required text with a value of $50.00 or higher.

TO BETTER SERVE YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS -- PLEASE:

1. Use the library reserve system ONLY for materials which will be assigned to students.
2. Allow 48 weekday hours before assigning materials to students.
3. We will process up to three copies of a single item per class.
4. Tell students to ask for these materials at the Circulation Desk.
5. Inform the Reserve Coordinator when materials are no longer needed by your students.
6. Tell students that the Library must enforce loan periods and fines for late materials for all instructors.
7. When faculty leave Cabrillo, they must retrieve their own reserve items from the library.
8. The library has extensive security precautions and they will be followed for all reserve materials, but the library does not assume responsiblity for the loss or damage of personal copies.

Copyright issues:

Please note that responsibility for compliance with U.S. Copyright laws in regards to photocopied reserve materials rests with the instructor. Please remove all your photocopied reserve materials at the end of each semester.

Library Reserve Copyright Policies

1. Photocopying one copy of an article from an owned journal title or a chapter from an owned volume at the request of a faculty member for the purpose of Library Reserve fits within Copyright guidelines of Fair Use.
2. The amount of material should be reasonable (discretionary designation) with respect to the total amount of material assigned for one term of a course taking into account the nature of the course, its subject matter and level, 17 U.S.C. 401(1) and (3).
3. The number of copies should be reasonable (discretionary designation) in light of the number of students enrolled, the difficulty and timing of assignments, and other courses which may assign the same material, 17 U.S.C. 107(1) and (3).
4. Material should contain some form of copyright notice (17 U.S.C. 401).
5. The effect of photocopying the material should not be detrimental to the market for the work. In general, the library should own at least one copy of the work, 17 U.S.C. 107(4). (From the ALA Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and Library Reserve Use, March '82.)
6. Multiple copies of a copyrighted article may be requested by a faculty member and put on reserve by the library if time does not allow for copyright permission to be granted.
7. To avoid any question of copyright infringement the library will mark copies of the work "Property of xxxx"
8. These materials will be returned to the faculty member when they are removed from reserve at the end of each semester. Return to the Library Home Page J. Bowen; Rev. August 05, 2005 -- G. Romero