Reserving Library Materials

Library/Faculty reserves are located behind the Library Circulation desk on the first floor of the Library. Reserve items are not available for browsing by patrons. You must request to check out Reserve items from Circulation personnel. Also, you must have your UAMS Campus ID to be able to check these items out.

The UAMS Library will put the following types of materials on Course Reserve, with the following restrictions:

• Nothing is put on Reserve for longer than one semester (or school year, if the semester plan is not followed).
• At the end of the above period of time, the item is removed from the Reserve shelves. It is returned to the Library stacks if owned by the Library, or returned to the owner if it is a personal copy.
• The Library must have any list of items to be placed on Reserve one week before they are to be needed by the class. The Library cannot guarantee that the item(s) will be available for use, if the instructor does not give us the courtesy of adhering to this policy. Other patrons can, and do check the items out if the Library does not know that they will be needed for Reserve.
• All Reserve items, questions and comments are to be directed to either the Head of Circulation or to the Circulation Night Manager.
• The UAMS Library Circulation department will be glad to supply blank reserve request forms to any instructor that asks. If the instructor will complete the form, we will be glad to pull the hardcopy items that the Library has,and place them on Reserve. Some exceptions to this policy are copies of items that never go on Reserve, such as CORE and Reference items, Library copies of original journals, photocopies or photocopies of articles in a collected form such as notebooks, binders, etc.
• Any items on Reserve may be used in the Library for two hours while the Library is open. If the instructor allows students to remove Reserve items from the Library overnight, these items must wait to be checked out until two hours before the Library closes. These items must be returned no later than two hours after the Library opens the next day. This policy will be strictly enforced.