Reserve Materials

Goucher College, to avoid legal liabilities, must strive to comply with current Intellectual Property and Copyright Laws. Please refer to the Goucher College Copyright Policy for detailed policy.

NEW!  Please also note that faculty now have the option of typing out a reserve form in advance, rather than doing the paper ones by hand at our Service Desk.   Here is that combined reserve form that allows typing and printing of text (but not saving).  

Library items
Any item the library owns can usually go on reserve without any copyright worries. If you choose to email your requests to us (tminnema@goucher.edu), please provide title, author, and call number information for each item from our catalog.  . Also, please note that we may require up to 3 days to process items for Reserve, and we don’t usually place multiple copies on Reserve. Moreover, at the beginnings of terms, extra time may be neded to process your reserve requests.

Your personal items
We can usually place an item you personally own on Reserve for one term, but certainly not repeatedly.  We recommend that you request through our Acquisitions department's order form that the library purchase such an item. Any personally reproduced items (off-air tapes, home-made CDs, etc.) must each be considered individually to assure copyright compliance.

Reprints of chapters or articles
Each and every reprint or reproduction of any kind must bear *complete* source bibliographic documentation as a cover sheet. Also, if the library owns the source material or has access electronically (see the Goucher Journals List) -- please indicate that on the cover sheet.

Textbooks
For logistical and quality-of-education reasons, it is library policy not to put on reserve any textbooks that are available for purchase through the college bookstore or elsewhere (e.g. Amazon).   However, we will consider putting up on semester-reserve any out-of-print texts, or doing a temporary reserve for an in-print textbook, if shortages occur.   These exceptions are only made on a case-by-case basis; students should assume that their course textbooks will not be found on reserve unless their professors announce otherwise, specifically.

Questions?
Please contact Tom Minnema (410-337-6356  tminnema@goucher.edu) or Randy Smith (410-337-6365  rsmith@goucher.edu).