What is Reserve?
Where are the Reserve materials on the Chicago campus?
What materials can I find on Reserve?
How do I access books/photocopies on Reserve?
How can I access Electronic Reserve items?
How can I access Electronic Reserve items from off campus?
What are the loan periods and late fees/fines?
Where do I return Reserve materials?
How can I contact Schaffner Reserve?
What is Reserve?
Reserve is a library service that allows instructors to set aside books, exams, notes and articles for the use of their classes, or make articles and selections from books available online. This reduces student expenses and allows out-of-print or expensive books to be made available. Both the Main Library in Evanston and the Schaffner Library on the Chicago campus offer reserve services.
Where are the Reserve materials on the Chicago campus?
Reserve materials
for current classes on the Chicago campus are shelved behind the Schaffner Circulation
Desk at the instructors' request,
and are available during Schaffner hours.
What materials can I find on Reserve?
Schaffner
places on Reserve only those items requested by course instructors.
NUL's Electronic
Reserve System is the electronic equivalent to Schaffner's Reserve
Shelf, maintaining and distributing instructional digital materials
for classes throughout the Northwestern community. It is available
online, virtually all hours.
How do I access books/photocopies on Reserve?
A Northwestern WildCard must be presented to use an item on Reserve.
To check an
item out from the Schaffner Reserve shelf, you must request it by the instructors last
name. Find materials on reserve by looking in the library's catalog NUcat. Above the search box click the Course Reserve tab, then search from pull-down menus by instructor.
A list of all
materials related to your search will appear. Click on the title
of any item to view its full NUcat record.
For classes on the Evanston campus, please refer to the Main Library's Reserve page.
How can I access Electronic Reserve items?
To access Electronic Reserve material, you must link to the
PDF from the catalog record. Therefore, you will need to access
the NUCat. From there, you will execute a Search for Reserve
Materials.
Above the search
box click the Course Reserve tab, then search from pull-down menus by
instructor (see image above). A list
of titles will be returned. Click on the title you wish to read, then
click on the URL to access a PDF version of the document.
How can I access Electronic Reserve items from off campus?
Electronic Reserve documents are accessible only to
members of the NU community; even current NU community members may be
unable to access this material from an off-campus commercial internet
service provider (e.g., AOL or Comcast). For NU students who would like
to access campus-only information from off campus, however, several direct
solutions are available. The easiest and most effective solution is Virtual
Private Networking (VPN), which is available in Macintosh OS X, Linux,
and Windows XP. More information about VPN and other options for off-campus
access can be found here.
What are the loan periods and late fees/fines?
Reserve materials all have highly restricted loan periods and
steep overdue fines. This is because the materials are expected
to be used by a large number of people in a short period of time.
If you feel that you have been improperly fined, please have your receipt and contact
the Circulation Supervisor Monday through Friday, Noon to 6:30pm.
Otherwise, fines may be paid at the Schaffner Circulation Desk.
All Schaffner Reserve items circulate for 2 hours, In-Library-Use only, and accrue overdue
fines at the rate of $1.00 per hour, including overnight hours or
other hours when the library is closed.
Where do I return Reserve materials?
All Reserve
materials must be returned to a Schaffner Circulation Desk attendant where you will be offered a receipt of return.
Reserve books may not be returned to the bookdrop.
How can I contact Schaffner Reserve?
You may reach us by email or by phone at (312) 503-8422. Full-time staff are generally available to assist you between 12 noon and 6:30 pm, Monday through Friday. To reach the Reserve Department in Evanston, please refer to their Reserve page.
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