Course Reserve Policies
and Restrictions

Guidelines:
- Faculty should make their requests on Faculty Reserve Request forms and are asked to
submit them at the Circulation Desk at least five days prior to the beginning of the reserve period;
please allow three weeks, if the items are needed at the beginning of a semester.
- Faculty or their assistants are requested to pull from the shelves those items they wish
to place on reserve. Books that are in circulation will be recalled as soon as
possible upon receiving the completed Faculty Reserve Request form.
- Periodical articles or passages from books should be submitted in photocopy form.
The Library staff will make up to four additional copies, in accordance with copyright
restrictions.
- Articles that are available online, full text, through the databases subscribed to
by Soper Library, will not be accepted for Reserves. Faculty are asked to check
current databases such as Academic Search Premier and Lexis/Nexis Academic before requesting that an item be placed on reserve.
- Non-circulating materials from Reference or other specialized service areas are not
placed on reserve. They remain in the area where they are usually housed: Reference,
Special Collections, Government Documents, Multimedia.
- Faculty who wish to place personally owned books or other items on reserve may
do so, but such items are accepted for reserve at the owner's risk. Personal copies
should be identified as such. It is understood that bar codes and reserve labels will be
attached to them.
- Materials will be removed from reserve status on the date specified by the
instructor or at the end of the semester or summer session. Instructors must
submit new lists each academic term, in accordance with copyright regulations.
- Faculty Reserve Request forms are available online or they may be picked up at the
Circulation Desk. To have a form mailed or faxed, contact Juliette Mitchell by
telephone at 443-885-3477, or by e-mail jmitchell@moac.morgan.edu. Faculty Reserve Request form
Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions
The Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under
certain conditions specified in the Law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproductions. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than
private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later
uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that
user may be liable for copyright infringement.
This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its
judgment, fulfillment of that order would involve violation of the law.
Copyright Information:
- The Library will accept for Reserves a photocopy of only one chapter from a work
by a single author.
- Photocopies of not more than three chapters or articles from a collective work or
periodical volume may be placed on reserve over the course of one semester--but no more than one
chapter or article from each collective work or periodical volume may be on
reserve at the same time.
- Photocopies of copyrighted material may not be placed on reserve for more than
one semester.
- Written permission from the copyright holder is required before the item may be
placed on reserve again.
- The instructor is responsible for obtaining written permission and submitting it along
with the items to be placed on reserve.
- No photocopies may be made from "consumable" works--i.e., workbooks, answer sheets, test booklets, etc.
- The bibliographical citation for each photocopied chapter or article must be noted
on the first page of the photocopy.
- Detailed information about copyright is available online from the U.S. Copyright Office.
- For information on how to request copyright permission, visit the online site
of the Association of American Publishers
(AAP).
- Obtaining copyright permission can often be done more efficiently and quickly through
the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC).
It has the right to grant permission and collect fees. Its address and phone number are:
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
222 Rosewood Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
Telephone: (508) 750-8400
Last Revised: 06/02/00