For Faculty

• Email Lisa Karle, Circulation and Fulfillment Manager (lkarle@saintmarys.edu), with information about the item you would like to place on shelf reserve.
  • Title of item
  • Course number, name, and semester for the reserve item
  • Whether the item is your personal copy or to be obtained from the library's collection.
  • Checkout duration (2-hours in library use, overnight checkout allowed, etc.)
• Only items from the library's collections or personal copies owned by the professor may be placed on reserve.
• Materials for reserve are processed M-F, 9:00am-5:00pm.
• Items placed on reserve are subject to fair use guidelines. Use this fair use checklist (Columbia University Libraries) to determine if your use meets fair use guidelines or consult the Copyright Policy for Saint Mary's College.
• Audio tapes, video tapes, DVDs, and CDs may be placed on reserve provided they are legal copies or owned copies.
• Materials placed on reserve may be checked out with a valid student ID for two-hours of in-library use, unless otherwise specified.
• Please contact Lisa Karle with questions regarding course reserves.

For articles and readings that are shorter than book-length, we strongly recommend linking directly to the reading using the library's licensed online resources.  If the reading is not available electronically, we recommend scanning the document as a PDF with optical character recognition (OCR) for accessibility.  The staff of the Instructional Technology Resource Center (ITRC) can advise on best practices for scanning and accessibility.

Readings that are uploaded to Blackboard must be in compliance with the Copyright Law of the United States. Amounts used are subject to fair use guidelines. Use this fair use checklist (Columbia University Libraries) to determine if your use meets fair use guidelines or consult the Copyright page of this guide.