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Place Items on Course Reserve
Course Reserves
Professors and instructors may place items on course reserve. These materials will be placed behind the Circulation Desk and may be accessed by students to use for a limited amount of time.
Items designated as course reserves may belong to the professor or the library’s collection. The professor must decide the loan period for an item: 2 hours or overnight.
The library will not accept or acknowledge material requested for e-reserves.
How to Place Material on Course Reserve
In Person
Download and fill out the “NJIT Library Reserve Form” and bring it with the materials to the Van Houten Circulation Desk. If the library owns the item, supply the call number and it will be pulled from the stacks for you.
Online
Complete the faculty reserve request Google Form. If the reserve item belongs to the professor be sure to bring it to the library after submitting the request. If the library owns the item, supply the call number and it will be pulled from the stacks for you.
To ensure materials are available on the first day of the semester, please have your items submitted for reserve at least 7 days before the start of classes.
When the reserve process is completed by the library staff, the professor or instructor will receive an email informing them the requested material has been placed on reserve and available for student access. If items in the library’s collection are not immediately available, the library staff will attempt to secure those items by the “recall” process, or will consult with the Librarian liaison for the department for further options.
Materials that are not owned by either the university or professors may be acquired by the library if it is determined by subject librarian liaisons that such a purchase would also fulfill a need within the library’s collection. Books that the library does not purchase but are still required for a course should be bought either by the professor or the department.
Consult your library liaison if you need help locating a copy of material you want to put on reserve.