Guidelines for UB Instructors

Print books, ebooks, and audiovisual materials to be used in courses may be placed on Course Reserve. Homework solutions, lecture notes, sample exams, supplemental, recommended and other similar material cannot be placed on Course Reserve.

Requests are processed in the order received, but processing times vary by format. If ebooks are to be placed on course reserve, please contact the appropriate Reserve Specialist in advance to ensure proper access to the title.

Please allow additional time if the item is not currently available in the library’s collection, as it may need to be recalled from borrowers/other libraries or ordered from publishers. For urgent requests under exceptional circumstances, contact your Reserve Specialist directly to discuss expedited options.

Please use our online form to submit your course reserve reading list. For quicker processing, please copy the URL for the item in our library’s catalog.

Please do not give students required reading assignments until you are certain your reserve list has been processed and the materials are available.

You can check the status of your request by going to search.lib.buffalo.edu:

• Click Reserve
• Type in your name
• Filter by course number if you’re teaching multiple courses

When selecting the type of Reserve loan period for books and other formatted materials such as audiovisual materials, keep in mind your course deadlines, length of readings, and size of classes/sections. There are five types of Reserve.

Anthologies of copyrighted material cannot be accepted for Reserve.

Exceptions to the Copyright Law will not be made. Please refer to the following sections of the Copyright Law (Title 17, United States Code) for more information:

• 106 (copyright owners, not users of copyrighted works, have these rights)
• 106A (authors of visual art have these additional rights)
• 107 (fair use exception if applicable to your use)

To learn more about copyright, see the copyright research guide.

If you find that the University Libraries do not own the required course materials, please check "Material needs to be purchased" on the electronic form.

PLEASE NOTE: It can take from three weeks, or longer, to obtain and process ordered material. If the library is unable to purchase the item, you will be contacted directly.

Faculty members may place personal copies of materials on Reserve. However, the Libraries cannot be responsible for loss of or damage to such materials. Personal material will be labeled and made security sensitive. Unless otherwise requested, these items will circulate under 24 hours Reserve.

All personal copies will be returned by campus mail after the end of the semester unless other arrangements have been made.

You may reactivate past semester’s reading lists. Reactivation requests should be submitted via email to libresrv@buffalo.edu. Please include the following information:

• Course Title
• Course Number (e.g. HIS 101)
• Year and semester of current course
• You may only reactivate the reading list of your most recently taught semester:
  • If your reading list has not changed, please indicate that we should reactivate the entire reading list
  • to reactivate only selected items or to omit selected items, please provide us with an updated reading list with full citations

All materials are automatically removed from Course Reserve at the end of each semester.