• Overview
• Borrowing reserves
  • Loan Periods
  • Reserve Fines
• Using Electronic Reserves
  • Copyright Policy for Electronic Reserve

Search for Course Reserves in Library Catalog

Faculty: To Put Print and Electronic Materials On Reserve

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Overview

Faculty members put books, journal articles, and other materials that are required or recommended reading on reserve in the libraries either in print or electronic format. In the Health Sciences Libraries, a core collection of basic text books and other key materials are also kept on reserve.

For books, DVDs, videos, and other print reserves at Hagerty, visit the Reserve Room on the main floor; at the Hahnemann and Queen Lane Libraries, the reserve collections are located at the circulation desks.

To find out where an item is on reserve, search the catalog by author or title; materials at Hagerty and Hahnemann can also be found using the Course Reserves module of the catalog by searching either the instructor's name or course number.

Borrowing Reserve Materials

• Present a current, valid Drexel University ID card.
• 3 item limit unless instructor indicates otherwise (Hagerty only).
• Return all materials to the Reserve Desk (Hagerty) or circulation desk (Health Sciences Libraries).
• Immediately report the loss of materials; patrons are responsible for all library materials checked out on their cards.
• Reserves are available all hours that the libraries are open.

Loan Periods

	Hourly Reserves	Overnight Reserves	Longer Reserves
Hagerty	2 hour in-house use.	Go out after 3 pm Due back at 10 am the next morning Items taken out Friday are due back Monday at 10 am	3 or 7 days Go out any time Due back by closing on the due date
Hahnemann	Circulate for 3 hours. Faculty personal copies may not leave the library without permission	Go out after 4 pm Due at 9 am the following morning Items taken out Friday are due back Monday at 9 am	Not generally applicable
Queen Lane	Circulate for 3 hours. During exam time, items in high demand will circulate for 2 hours.	Go out after 4 pm Due back one hour after opening Friday to Monday overnight check out is not permitted.	Not generally applicable

Reserve Overdue Fines

• Overdue fines are automatically charged to the patron record.
• Fines for in-house use items and overnight items are calculated at $1.00 per hour, plus $10.00 if not returned to the same library from which they were borrowed.
• Note: Borrowing privileges and remote access services are discontinued when fines reach $10.00.

Textbooks

If we don't have a textbook you are looking for on reserve or in our catalog, you can rent textbooks from

• Chegg
• Campus Book Rentals

Using Electronic Reserves

Electronic Reserves can be found by instructor name or course number through the Course Reserve module of the library catalog.

Electronic Reserves can be accessed via the campus network or off-campus using the proxy server; they can be linked to directly from course websites.

Documents are in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. For the current version, link to: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.

Follow the instructions below to locate, view and print these materials:

1. Go to library catalog at innopac.library.drexel.edu .
2. Click on the Reserves button.
3. Search by instructor name or course number. If searching by course number, be certain to select the correct instructor when you get to the next screen.
4. Hagerty only: To view, click on the title that is followed by 'Electronic Reserve.' You will be taken to a page that lists each item on reserve for that course. Click on the name of the item that you wish to read or print.
5. Health Sciences Libraries: In viewing electronic reserve items, clicking on the title will take you directly to it.
6. Type your Drexel Email Username and Password. ( If you do not know your email user ID, or if you did not set up a password wizard originally, call the IRT Accounts help desk at 215-895-2698. If you do not know your email password, go to http://accounts.drexel.edu to reset it.)
7. To print, use the Adobe Acrobat print icon and specify the range of pages to print. DO NOT use the browser's print function. If you have problems printing, download the latest version of Acrobat Reader.

Copyright Policy for Electronic Reserves Materials

The Drexel University Libraries comply with United States copyright law. Materials are made available in accordance with "fair use" as defined in Section 107: Limitations on Exclusive Use: Fair Use (Title 17, U.S. Code). To date there is no consistent, generally agreed upon interpretation of Fair Use in the Electronic Reserve environment. So, following what we believe to be the "best practices," the libraries have adopted the following policies and procedures:

• The Electronic Reserve System will be limited to the Drexel University community of students, faculty and staff.
• The following copyright warning appears on each authentication page:

WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS Under certain conditions specified in the United States Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code) libraries and archives may be authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction may not be used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research and that only one copy be provided for scholarly purposes unless copyright fees are paid. Further reproduction of paper copies made from this computer system may be in violation of copyright laws.

• At the end of each course, all items in the Electronic Reserve System will be suppressed from view, unless they do not fall under copyright protection or unless copyright permission has been granted by the publisher.

Note that there are no restrictions on placing articles from the Libraries' electronic book or journal collections on electronic reserve.