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

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Last Revised: 06/02/00