Course Reserves

Link to LION's Reserve Desk for reserve lists

Link to Blackboard for eReserves

FYI . . . Information about Reserves

Reserve Desk | Electronic Reserves | Instructions for Faculty

Reserve Desk

Location: Library Circulation Desk

Materials Available: Books, videorecordings, CDs, and photocopied documents placed on Reserve by instructors for student use.

Student Availability: By presenting a valid library key tag card at the Circulation Desk, students may borrow reserve items for a specific period of time, designated by the instructor, such as same day, overnight, 3 days, or 14 days.

Online Reserve Lists: Students can view lists of materials available at the RBC Reserve Desk through the Reserve Desk component of LION (the library catalog). When searching for reserves in LION, students should limit their search to the reserve desk: R-BLAND Reserves. Students may then search by instructor's last name, course name, or course number.

Late Charges: The overdue fine for late reserve items is $1 per day.

Electronic Reserves

Location: RBC Blackboard Web Page

Materials Available: Scanned documents such as essays, articles, and assorted course materials placed on eReserve by instructors for student use.

Student Availability: With a campus email account, students can use their username and password to log into Blackboard anytime and anywhere. The username is generally the student's first initial, middle initial, and the first four letters of the last name. The password is the capital letter 'P' followed by the last six digits of the student's Social Security number.

Sample student login information: Jane Anne Smith, 023-45-7229
Jane's username: jasmit
Jane's password: P457229

Online Documents: Once in Blackboard, students will select the course entitled "Library eReserves". Reserve materials are available under "Course Documents" and are arranged by course number and name. Since documents are available in PDF format, the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing.

Late Charges: Not applicable.

Instructions for Faculty

Reserve Desk: Faculty are encouraged to submit materials to be added to the Reserve Desk. Although your request will be processed as quickly as possible, please allow one or two days for completion.

Library staff need the following information from you:

· Course Name & Number
· Borrowing period (same day, overnight, 3 days, 14 days)
· Date in which material should be removed from Reserve

Once fully processed, reserve materials will be listed in the Reserve Desk component of LION.

Electronic Reserves: Materials submitted to the library for eReserves should meet the following criteria:

· Copies should be one-sided and on 8.5 x 11" inch paper.
· Copies should be clean and clear.
· Any handwriting on copies should be dark and legible.
· If possible, copies should contain bibliographic source information.
· Copies should be eligible for fair use distribution under copyright guidelines. Copyright permission will most likely not be needed for teaching documents such as exams, lecture notes and student papers; government documents; public domain texts; a single article from a journal issue; a single chapter from a book; a single illustration from a book or periodical; short poems or excerpts of longer poems; short prose works or excerpts of prose works. On the other hand, copyright permission must be obtained for lengthy materials, multiple chapters from the same book, multiple articles from the same journal issue, items used more than one semester, and for classroom documents such as standardized tests, exercises and workbooks. Click here for more information on copyright. RBC's eReserve copyright policies are based on those used by the Swem Library.

Faculty must provide the library with the following information:

· Course Name & Number
· Date in which material should be removed from Blackboard

Although your request will be processed as quickly as possible, please allow one or two days for completion. Please allow additional time for the scanning and processing of eReserves at the start of each semester.

Questions, comments, concerns or requests? Please send an email to library@rbc.edu.

Page updated July 28, 2005.

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