Faculty members can make requests for physical books the library owns to be placed on course reserves. The library purchases some textbooks to support textbook affordability for students. Alternatively, faculty members can provide the library with a personal copy of their course text to be placed in the library's course reserves for the duration of the semester. 

Print books on reserve for a course are housed in Access Services behind the Circulation Desk and can be borrowed by students for a 3-hour period whenever the Circulation Desk is open. More information on placing books on reserve can be found here.

Please make every effort to make your textbook information available to students before class registration opens. If your course will not require students to purchase course materials, please indicate on the textbook request form. 

The library creates online "reading lists" for courses each semester. We populate those reading lists with required textbook information we get from the bookstore or from students. If the library owns a print or electronic copy of the textbook, there will be a link or location information linked to that citation. 

What is the point of these lists? Students can search for a course's reading list and discover textbooks available at the library through the library catalog. Students can share the library's copies and use the library's free scanner, reducing costs imposed on students. However, students have an obligation to purchase required class texts; casebooks on reserve are not intended and should not be used as a substitute for the purchase of casebooks.