In the 1998-99 academic year, the reserves program served 617 courses, and 47 Summer School courses. The disciplines most heavily represented are History, Government, and Economics. The largest single departmental user of reserves is the Core Curriculum. Approximately half of Lamont's overall monograph purchases derive from reserves requests by the faculty. The purchase of multiple copies of materials requested for reserves is determined by expected course enrollment.
Reserves use is monitored to adjust ordering algorithms.
In such cases, the material is borrowed from another unit of HCL, usually Widener. If unavailable, procedures have been established to make a digitized preservation copy from the archival copy. Compliance with copyright guidelines is a continual issue for reserves programs. To request that material be put on reserve, use our Reserve Request Form . Within an organizational framework consisting of members from other HCL units, the University Library's Office for Information Systems and their Preservation Office, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Instructional Computing Group, this pilot project offered parallel e-reserves access to a number of courses supported by Cabot, Hilles, Lamont, Littauer and Tozzer Libraries.