Reserve Materials
Submitting items for reserves
Faculty have the opportunity each semester to place materials on Reserve. Faculty are notified through email with instructions, links to appropriate forms, and the deadlines for submission. Requests received after the deadline are processed as quickly as possible in the order received. Reserve request forms are available at the Circulation Desk or may be submitted electronically using the online form. The University System of Georgia also requires that a Fair Use Checklist (http://www.usg.edu/copyright/fair_use_checklist/) be completed for each item submitted for reserves.
Please provide all information requested on the Reserve request form; complete title, author and/or call numbers for books. Personal copies of books or photocopied material will have call numbers assigned when they are processed.
Traditional Reserves
Library owned materials, as well as personal materials, may be placed in the closed stack Reserve area within Circulation. These items are listed through the online catalog's course reserve search which can be queried by instructor, course number or department. To obtain traditional reserve material, patrons must present both the call number and appropriate identification (students must present a current Claw Card) to the Circulation staff. Patrons should ask for assistance if they cannot locate the call number of the item they need. In addition, the University System of Georgia's Fair Use Checklist found at http://www.usg.edu/copyright/fair_use_checklist/ must also be completed for each item placed on reserve.
To ensure that Reserve materials are readily available, the number of items which one may check out at one time is limited.
Reserve material must be returned directly to the Circulation desk from which it was checked out. Failure to do so may result in fines accruing until the material is received at the Circulation desk. Patrons who do not return Reserve items promptly may have their records restricted or flagged.
Reserves Circulation
One-day and three-day reserves can leave the library. Two-hour reserves are for library use only. The patron must use them in the library.
Electronic Reserves
E-reserves are materials such as articles, class notes, and other items, that are available as full-text files which students can access online. With E-Reserves students can download and print many Reserve items from any campus computer or from home at their convenience. A password is needed to access online E-Reserves documents, as copyright concerns require that these items be password protected and available only to students registered for that class. Passwords are assigned by the instructor and must be unique for each course and changed each semester. It is the instructor's responsibility to give the password to their class(es); the Library staff is unable to provide passwords.
Submitting items for electronic reserves
The Circulation desk will automatically scan class notes, articles, single chapters from books, and other acceptable material submitted for Reserves. Not all material is suitable for E-Reserves. Poor quality photocopies or light, handwritten material cannot be scanned. Items which contain a large number of images will create very large file sizes and may not be suitable for our current scanning process. Entire books and large course packets cannot be scanned due to copyright restrictions. Documents submitted in an electronic form (MS Word, PDF, or a web site) will receive a higher priority in processing. Please submit these readings on a disk or provide the URL.
Copyright Information
The GGC Library makes every attempt to respect the Boundaries of the Fair Use Clause of Copyright Law. At the request of the instructor, we are able to scan ONE article from an issue of a journal, THREE articles from a bound volume of a journal, or ONE chapter from a book, provided that the material does not comprise a significant proportion of the work. Please note that the GGC Library does not take responsibility for copyright clearance or permissions for material placed on Course Reserve.