Library-owned books and instructor-owned books, tests, and papers are placed on Reserves through the Access Services Department of the Axe Library. All reserve materials, once processed, are available for search through the online catalog.
All PSU students, faculty, and staff MUST present their PSU Photo ID at the time of each checkout. Other users must present a valid library checkout card.
Items you wish to place on reserve (Library-owned books, personal copies, test, photocopies, etc.) should be brought to the Circulation Desk. Fill out a copy of the Reserve Material Form (PDF) and bring it with the material to be placed on reserve.
The Copyright Compliance Form needs to be completed and brought to the desk for each copyrighted and photocopied title (article). Due to copyright and processing procedures, we hope to be able to process materials within 1-3 working days. If information is incomplete, the circulation supervisor will contact you for proper information. Copyright forms need to be signed by the instructor, not the GA or secretary.
Realizing that both long and short reading assignments are usually photocopied by the students and read elsewhere, the following checkout times are recommended:
At the end of each semester we will send you a printout indicating total use of each item by circulation (number of checkouts), so that you can see firsthand which items were actually used by your students over the course of a semester.
Come by, call, or drop us a note. The "pink" withdrawal form helps us uniformly track what is being taken off, and material can be taken off mid-semester. Items which fall into copyright compliance categories will be returned to you automatically after the semester has ended if you do not take them off. We will send them back to you through campus mail.
Effective Summer 1995, photocopied material for faculty reserve will be processed only if accompanied by a signed Copyright Compliance Form. This form must be printed out, read, and signed by the instructor before processing of any articles that have been submitted for the instructor's Library reserve.
Guidelines of the Library, drawn from the 1976 Copyright Law, for placing photocopied materials on reserve are as follows:
"Fair Use" is outlined below. For more information on "Fair Use" guidelines, see the Office of Academic Affairs Memorandum 84-10 or call the Library. The Library reserves the right to request proof of copyright clearance.
To use, or not to use: If the item on reserve is valuable or unique, you should seriously consider photocopying it for preservation and not place the original on reserve. Reserve items get used, and (unfortunately) abused, and (yes), sometimes ripped off.
Reserve is the place for RAPID access and checkout. From time to time we will make a notation for you which items have or have not been used over a period of time. We will therefore request your assistance in regularly removing items which you will no longer be using. If an item has zero checkouts in three years it will automatically be removed from reserves and returned to the faculty member or the Axe shelves.
Our goal is to make (and keep) your material
accessible to ALL your students.