Library Course Reserves Policies

Placing Course Material on Print Reserves

The Course Reserves Collection in all libraries (Frost, Science, and Music) is a semester by semester grouping of print and other physical materials required for classes. The Collection can include books, videos, CDs, DVDs, etc. The loan period for reserve items is usually four (4) hours, although materials may be checked out for overnight use anytime within four hours of library closing.

To place items on Print Reserve:

• Faculty/ADCs make Adoptions through Follett
• Library Reserve Team receives list of required books from Follett. We will keep 1 copy of required material on Print Reserve.
• Faculty/ADCs send any additional (recommended/not-required) material needed for Print Reserves in an email, list, spreadsheet, or detailed in the course’s syllabus (we ask for this list to include identifying information like title, author, year published, and/or ISBN)
• Any additions or edits past July 4th should be submitted not only to Follett, but to the Library as well (reserves@amherst.edu), if you’d like those edits to be represented in our Print Reserves
• Requested materials will be prepared by Reserve Team and be available by first day of classes
   

Placing Course Material (Digital and Scanned) on eReserves
 

The Library will put journal articles, eBook links (with unlimited student access), and book chapters (up to 20% of a book) on eReserve for Amherst College courses. In some cases, eReserves will also be made for licensed streaming media (ex. Kanopy films and Kaltura videos). These materials will be made available for students to access online via your course Moodle page.

To place items on eReserve, 

• Email your course syllabi to reserves@amherst.edu.
• Please be sure that all readings include complete citation information (including page numbers) and, if possible, the dates the readings are due.

Going forward, eReserves will only link to eBooks that we have unlimited access to! 

• If a professor is planning on using multiple chapters (over 20%) of an eBook, and the library does not have unlimited access to the eBook, we suggest adding that book to the course’s Follett adoptions as required material. 
• If the professor is using under 20% of an eBook, we will scan/download those chapters and put them up as eReserves.

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Need help accessing or organizing your eReserves on Moodle? 

Our usage statistics show that students are more likely to read material that is easy to find in an organized format! Here are 3 short video tutorials that can help! (IT has also created a great webpage to guide you through the process.)

How to Access your eReserves

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Organizing eReserves in Moodle - Create Folders within eReserve Plus

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Organizing eReserves in Moodle - Embed Individual Readings on Moodle Page 

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Digitized Video

For access to digitized films and videos, you can find more information on IT's Audio and Video eReserves webpage. Videos appear in the Video Reserves link on your course Moodle page. Please know that we may not be able to provide access to certain media only available on subscription streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Max, as these services do not allow institutional access. 

Copyright

The focus of the Library's eReserves service is material for which copyright might apply. Class syllabi, practice exams, and problem sets are not covered by the service. Items will be placed on reserve at the request of the course instructor. Course reserve materials are intended solely for non-commercial, educational use.

Amherst College adheres to and promotes observance of US Copyright laws. Please refer to additional information about copyright and fair use.

The College subscribes to the Annual Copyright License for academic institutions from the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). The eReserves team will forward all citations for material not covered by our Annual License to our course materials partner, LAD/Follett to seek out these permissions. eReserve links to the Library's online collections incur no copyright fee.
 

At the end of each semester, access to eReserves will be discontinued for enrolled students.

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Rightsholders should direct any complaints about possible copyright infringements to:

John Manly  (dmca[at]amherst.edu)
Director of Systems & Networking
Rm B-15 Converse Hall
Amherst College
Amherst, MA  01002-5000
(413)-542-2641