Course Reserve materials are set in closed stacks. Reserve materials cannot be checked out, and they cannot leave the library. This is how we make sure the materials will be available for any students in your classes who visit the library.
We recommend you send your discipline librarian a list of Course Reserve materials each semester. This will help your students have more access to materials required for your class. It will also keep us updated, so we are not restricting materials unnecessarily. Please notify us if Course Reserve materials no longer need to be reserved.
Reserve requests will be processed as they are received. Please allow five (5) working days for circulation staff to process items for reserve.
NOTE: The Biomedical Library and the Mitchell College of Business Library have their own reserve guidelines.
Beginning June 2016, the Marx Library no longer will subscribe to a stand-alone E-reserve program (Docutek). Placing items on E-reserve can be accomplished with the assistance of your discipline librarian. Items previously placed in Docutek have been exported as hyperlinked reference lists and delivered to relevant liaison librarians.
During the transition from Docutek to using Sakai for E-reserves, the hyperlinked reference lists can also be acquired by contacting Anita (radcliffsmith@southalabama.edu) in the Marx Library Circulation department.
To place new items on e-reserves for your course, follow the instructions below.
1. Search the library’s resources to see if the Marx Library provides access to the article(s).
2. Alternate method – coordinate your E-reserves needs with your discipline librarian.
We cannot scan an entire book for Electronic Reserve. The entire book can be placed on Course Reserve for in-library use or for checkout. Items cannot remain on Reserve for longer than one semester. We can take them off Reserve and put the items back on reserve the next semester, but they must be taken off Reserve between semesters to comply with Copyright law.
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law.
The Marx Library can place the following types of materials on Reserve:
It is common practice for faculty to place personal copies of books and other materials on Reserve. Please note that barcodes and labels will be applied to these items.