Physics Library Reserve Policies and Guidelines for Instructors

Policies

Lists are processed in the order they are received. They may take up to 2 weeks to process. If you add an item later remember that it may take several days to process.

Please do not assign Reserve readings until you receive confirmation that your list has been processed. We'll also let you know if any items are not available.

There is a maximum of 25 books per course. Recommended readings will not be placed on Reserve.

Please provide photocopies of articles and/or chapters of books. The library can photocopy up to 5 articles per course but this will substantially slow down the processing time.

Journal articles, book chapters, lecture notes and non-copyrighted material will be placed on ICON at : http://icon.uiowa.edu/index.shtml

ALL MATERIAL MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A COMPLETE CITATION. AN ITEM WILL NOT BE PROCESSED FOR RESERVE UNTIL A COMPLETE CITATION IS PROVIDED. If we have to contact you to obtain the citation, this will substantially slow down the processing time.

If we don't own a requested title, we will rush order it but it may be several weeks before it's available.

Guidelines for Lists

Please provide the course name and number plus your name, university address, and e-mail address.

List books and photocopies separately—alphabetically by author. A syllabus it is not a substitute for the list/s . Please list ALL materials you want on reserve. For example, if you want the texts on reserve include them on the list. If you want your students to use books on Permanent Reserve please include them on the list to make it easier for your students to find the right books.

Books
Library Owned Books
Please list the author's name, the title and the UI call number, loan period (2 hour or 3-day).

Personal Copies of Books
Please list the author's name and the title. If you provide personal copies of books or photocopies for Reserve, we will make them non-circulating (2 hour in-library loan period) unless you indicate otherwise. Even so, please be aware that these items are often heavily used and may be stolen. We cannot replace or repair personal materials.

Photocopies
For photocopies, both the ones you provide and the ones we are to make, please provide complete citations.

Due to copyright regulations, we can have only one book chapter per book on the web page at any time. If you will be assigning more than one chapter from a given book, include the book on your book list and we will place it on reserve.