Any books, periodicals and photocopies from the main Library collection may be incorporated into the Reserve Collection for the duration of a course. You may also lend your own copies of books for Reserve. As well as finding items in the Library Catalogue in the normal way, your students will be able to look up items by your name and by the course title. This is in addition to any reading lists sent to Subject Librarians. Each list should be accompanied by a Reserve Collection form, available from the Issue Desk.
Adequate notice is needed to ensure that items are in place when they are required.
This is especially critical at the start of each term, so please allow us at least 3 weeks' notice, and preferably a month . At the end of each term, we send a letter to all staff who have had items on Reserve, with statistics of use of the items while on Reserve. This is to help you to review your requirements for future courses, and to remind you to submit lists for the following term. When recommending books and articles for Reserve, we ask you to take particular note of any statistics of use in previous years or terms. As a general rule, if items were borrowed fewer than 5 times on a previous occasion, we would not normally put them on Reserve again.