Reserve Services Information for Faculty
Two Kinds of Reserve – Regular and Electronic (eReserve)
Regular
Regular Reserve submission form (Form requires a recent version of Adobe Reader)
Regular Reserve enables your class to equitably share items without the worry of tracking down books in the NU Library system. Reserve enhances the accessibility of items for your students, by enabling them to check out class materials from a central location for a short loan period.
Lists should be submitted three weeks before the beginning of the quarter so we can best serve the diverse needs of numerous instructors and their students.
Reserve Services complies with current copyright law and practice. See Copyright and Reserve for more information.
See Regular Reserve Guidelines for full details of this service.
eReserve
eReserve submission form (Form requires a recent version of Adobe Reader)
eReserve provides NU students access to digital documents through either NUcat (the library's online catalog) or a specific Blackboard course site. Staff will make available electronic files through whichever of these access systems specified in the request.
NUcat Option: If you choose NUcat access, the eReserve items will be listed under the NUcat Course Reserve tab by Instructor/Course.
Blackboard option: If you choose access through Blackboard, items will not be posted in the Library's online catalog. Rather, Reserve will email each completed document's URL to the instructor for inclusion on the appropriate Blackboard page. Reserve is NOT responsible for the construction or support of Blackboard pages; all technical support for Blackboard is handled through Academic Technologies (847) 467-7046.
Copyright law places some restrictions on Reserve use of copyrighted material, particularly use by eReserve. See Reserve Copyright for more information.
Requests should be submitted three weeks before the date for which the reading requested is needed. If this is not possible, the processing during less busy periods can be expedited if you supply high-quality photocopies to Reserve and include the copyright information as well as a full citation of the source.
Additionally, please submit a date by which each item should be available to your students; in order to serve all faculty equitably, we are generally unable to process an entire quarter's eReserve request at one time.
See Electronic Reserve Guidelines for full details of this service.
Requests for Audio and Video Streaming need to be submitted to Digital Collections http://www.library.northwestern.edu/dc/digitizationservices/streaming.html
Contacting Reserve
Email: e-reserve@northwestern.edu
Call: (847) 491-7681
Visit Core/Reserve: 2N, Main University Library
Full-time staff members are generally available 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, Monday-Friday
Last updated: March 3, 2009
