Course Reserves

Instructors may request materials be placed on reserve using our Course Reserves Release Form below. Reserves staff will place what resources the library has available on reserve for your course and notify you when items are available.

Course reserves materials will be removed after the semester ends. If materials are used in following terms, faculty must place a new request for that material.

Requests are processed within 1-2 weeks. Please provide as much information as possible when filling out the form and ensure your contact information is correct to prevent delays in processing requests.

Course Reserves Release Form

Course Reserves Guidelines

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center acknowledges and supports the appropriate use (i.e., reproduction, distribution, performance, and display) of copyrighted works and materials for teaching, scholarship, and research purposes consistent with the standards of fair use as enumerated in federal copyright law.

All faculty, instructors and other authorized personnel should be familiar with the fair use standard and are expected to adhere to federal copyright laws. It is essential that members of the University community make a diligent effort to stay within the bounds of copyright law.

Items to be placed on reserve should be obtained by the library or owned by the requesting instructor; items from interlibrary loan (ILL) cannot be placed on reserve. HSLIC is unable to put course packs, photocopies of pages from workbooks, compilations of photocopied readings or complimentary copies of textbooks on reserve. Instructors may place compilations of their own lecture notes and examinations on reserve (in print), provided that they are the owners of the copyright for these materials. We cannot put PDFs or digital copies of instructor items on reserve.

Faculty can make full-text books available to their students for a limited loan period through reserves. Reserves employees will pull books from the library stacks, recall books that are currently checked out, or use faculty-supplied copies as appropriate.

Print books will be placed in our reserves collection, located on the 3rd floor near the Service Desk. Items are shelved alphabetically by department and course number.

E-books are placed on reserve in the Course Reserves module in WorldCat Discovery. Each course with reserves has its own page and can be searched in the module by course name, number or instructor. Course reserves pages can be linked in your LMS. Find your course by searching the module using the button below and email us if you have any questions!

Course Reserves Module

Loan periods:

The loan period for physical materials is three hours. Items placed on electronic reserves generally do not have a set loan period, but students may have to authenticate using their UNM or HSC credentials to access them if they are off-campus. Not all e-books have unlimited access; please advise your students to view electronic materials early and/or download or print the content they need to free up the item for other students.

Faculty have the option of placing their own personal copies of books on reserve. Please fill out our Personal Copy Request form below and bring the item(s) to the library front desk. It can take 5-10 business days to process an item.

Personal Copy Request Form

Personal Copy Guidelines

• To ensure that these items are returned to you, please identify and label all personal items you want placed on reserve (e.g. Property of H. Smith, PH 101, c.2)
• Personal materials placed on reserve will be processed and circulated according to standard reserve procedures, including labeling and barcoding to facilitate check-out, and sensitization to deter theft.
• UNM/HSC affiliated users may check out any materials placed on reserve. The library will not verify course or department enrollment of library users.
• Faculty will be contacted to pick up their personal copies at the end of each semester. You must pick up your personal copies or contact reserves employees to make other arrangements no later than six weeks after the semester has ended.
• All efforts will be made to contact personal copy owners to retrieve items, but if you, as the personal copy owner, have left the University and have not provided alternative contact information and/or we cannot get in contact with you after six (6) weeks, items will be considered as donations to HSLIC's general collection pursuant to the Donations to the Collection policy.
• Although library employees take every precaution to ensure personal copies remain in good condition, the library is not responsible for any damage to, or theft of, personal items placed on reserve.

When requesting a book chapter/excerpt or journal article, fill out our Permanent Link and Scanning Form below. Provide as much information as possible. PDFs will be provided to the requesting instructor to be uploaded to their LMS. PDFs cannot be placed on HSLIC's Course Reserves module.

Scanning & Permanent Link Request Form

Please note that due to copyright restrictions, reserves employees can only scan up to 10% of a book for e-reserves.

If we have electronic access, reserves employees will locate the e-book or journal article and provide a permanent link.

Feel free to make a copy or re-use this page as long as you credit UNM HSLIC.

This guide was created by a Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center staff member and is licensed by the Health Science Library and Informatics Center of the University of New Mexico under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.