Course reserves are materials that your professors have made available for you and your classmates to share for use in your courses. To be fair and help everyone have reliable access to the needed sources, we have short loan periods, the items can't be taken out of the library, and there are very strict fines for late returns. You are free to scan and print what you need to take home.
Physical reserves are available at the Library Service Desk in the Guerrieri Academic Commons. These items circulate for a short time (just 2 or 3 hours) and must be used in the library. This lets a class share a resource so you all don't have to buy your own copies.
Copies of some, but not all, required textbooks are available for short-term use in the library. (Some of these are personal copies on loan from your professors. If a textbook for your class is NOT on reserve, it doesn't hurt to ask your professor if he or she has an extra copy that could be loaned or donated to the library to use as a course reserve.)
The main place is through their MyClasses course page! These pages are designed and managed independently by each faculty member, and faculty are the only ones who post files in these pages (including COPYRIGHT-PROTECTED material). You can get assistance from ID&D if needed!
Through the LIBRARY homepage, students can directly get to SU-subscribed Ebooks or articles that are in SU-licensed databases. (Students should not try to go to journals or databases directly or via Google! They will be not get authenicated to access them except by starting on the SU Libraries website!) Faculty CAN post these links in their syllabi / MyClasses pages, so that students can efficiently get to all of their readings from one place, or instruct students to get familiar with the library search page.
Just come up to the Library Service Desk, and tell a staff person that you would like to check out a Course Reserve. If you can provide the Shelf Name/Number of the item you want (for example, "Smith #10"), the staff person can quickly retrieve the item from the back and check it out to you. You can find this "location" information in our searchable Reserves catalog, to the right of the item's title.
We can also assist you when you come up to the desk with looking up the item in our Course Reserves system catalog on a service desk computer -- you will need to know the item's title, your professor's name, or your course number.
You must have your Gull Card (or the SU Gull Card Barcode app) to check out anything at the library.
Usually DVDs being used in courses have a 3-Hour checkout period, and can NOT be taken out of the building. When you check out the DVD, you can also check out an external DVD player and headphones, and watch the film on any computer in the GAC. Check out a laptop and find a comfortable couch or chair in the library, or watch the film on one the large screens in a reservable study room. You should also check for yourself to see if the film is currently available to stream online, or through one of our film databases, Kanopy or Swank.
Usually, DVDs being used in courses have a 3-Hour check out period and can NOT be taken out of the building. When students check out the DVD, they can also check out an external DVD player and headphones and watch the film on any computer in the GAC. They can check out a laptop and find a comfortable couch or chair in the library or watch the film on one the large screens in a reservable study room.