{"id":2168,"date":"2021-05-07T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.10.7.254\/?page_id=2168"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:56:29","slug":"reserves-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mercer.edu\/index.php\/university-libraries\/mercer-university-libraries-policies\/reserves-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Reserves Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mercer University faculty and instructors can make available supplemental course materials, such as PDFs and physical books, via Course Reserves. By placing an item on reserve, the faculty member can ensure that high-demand materials are equally available to all students in the course.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Faculty members may place books, articles, video recordings, sound recordings, music scores, and other materials on reserve for their students to check out for limited loan periods. These materials may be copies owned by the library or personal copies owned by the faculty member. The library cannot be held responsible for personal copies that are lost, damaged, or not returned by students.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Faculty members may request the library purchase material they wish to place on reserve, contingent upon availability of funding. The library does not place items on reserve that are a part of Special Collections, items obtained through Interlibrary Loan, consumable items such as test and test booklets or course packs, and personal subscription items such as streaming services like Netflix.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Faculty must complete a course reserve form<\/a> per course to accompany all material. Faculty may select a lending period of 3-hours, 1-day, 3-days, or 1-week. Course reserves accrue a fine of $1 per hour or day overdue, depending on which lending period is selected. Materials placed on reserve must comply with U.S. copyright laws.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Once a request is received, a minimum of two (2) business days processing time is required to make new reserve items available to students. Additional processing time may be required at the beginning of semesters. Materials that must be ordered also require additional processing time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

At the end of the semester, all materials are removed, and personal copies are returned to faculty members.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Reposting of the same material for use in a subsequent semester requires a new course reserve form, due to copyright compliance.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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NOTE: It is the responsibility of the faculty member to check copyright compliance before submitting any materials print materials (including photocopied materials) for digitization for eReserves.\u00a0 Faculty must perform due diligence in checking for the availability of electronic forms of said material, including (but not limited to) eBooks, open-source materials, or any electronic copy that meets the standards for fair use, and which does not violate copyright law (i.e., date of authors\u2019 death, plus 70 years, etc.).\u00a0<\/p>

After completing the above process, the Mercer University Libraries may accept from faculty, certain types of photocopies and scan them for electronic reserves. All reserve photocopies must be submitted by the course instructor. The library cannot photocopy articles for placement on reserve. The photocopies must:<\/p>