The following information is for instructors wishing to place Yale Library
books on 3-Day, 24-hour, or 2-hour reserve for their courses.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- CHOOSING TITLES: Please be highly selective in placing titles on
reserve.
- Data from our reserve circulation system show that most titles are
underused.
- CHOOSING RESERVE LOAN PERIODS: 2-Hour, 24-Hour, or 3-Day.
- We suggest that 2-hour reserve be assigned to mandatory readings
and 24-Hour or 3-Day reserve to secondary titles used to prepare papers
or presentations.
- INFORMATION: Please call or email SSL's
Circulation Staff at (203) 432-3300.
- Whenever you have questions, please call the Social Science Circulation
Staff. We're more than happy to assist you.
APPLICABLE RESERVE MATERIALS:
- BOOKS:
- Please
include information from Orbis when filling out the Reserve Request
Form whenever possible.
- NEW BOOKS:
- If the library does not own a book that you wish to place on reserve,
please fill out a book
request form to have it ordered.
- PHOTOCOPIED ARTICLES:
- You must give the library staff one photocopy of any article you
would like placed on reserve. Many articles are currently available
online through one of our many databases. To find out if an article
you are interested in using is online, please contact the SSL
reference staff at (203) 432-3301.
- PERSONAL COPIES:
- Providing personal copies before classes start allows sufficient
time for processing. When the personal material does not accompany the
list, please indicate "to be supplied" on the form.
- VIDEO/AUDIO TAPES:
- Tapes used in conjunction with course work may be placed on reserve.
SSL does not own a cassette tape player. We suggest that audio
tapes be placed on 24-Hour reserve so that students may take them out
of the library to use.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY STATEMENT ON RESERVE COPIES
Librarians and library staff may not make multiple copies for
reserve reading unless the permission of the copyright holder has been
obtained, nor may they accept multiple copies from a faculty member. Section
107-108 guidelines, excerpted below, apply only to the making of single
copies. Should multiple copies be made or accepted, the library must
have written verification that the copyright holder has given permission.
It is the responsibility of the requesting faculty member to gain permission
from the copyright holder for making/use of multiple copies. Each copy
must bear "notice of copyright." Copies may not be reused for another
term without permission, unless a "blanket permission" (covering all contingencies)
was granted originally. Libraries may accept one copy from a faculty member,
the copy will remain the property of the faculty member and will be so
marked. The faculty member's copy will be returned at the end of the semester.
The background for this policy appears in Subsection 108g of the Copyright
Law, which says:
The rights of reproduction and distribution...extend to the isolated
and unrelated reproduction or distribution of a single copy...of
the same material on separate occasions, but do not extend to cases
where the library or archive:
- is aware of has substantial reason to believe that it is engaging
in the related or concerted reproduction of multiple copies...of
the same material, whether made on occasion or over a period of time
and whether intended for aggregate use by one or more individual members
of a group; or
- engages in the systematic reproduction or distribution of single
or multiple copies...of material.
This policy applies to both in-print and out-of-print materials, as well
as unpublished items.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR RESERVES:
- SSL will accept a personal copy of material if it is:
- only one copy of a journal article;
- only one copy of a "course packet" for 2-Hour Reserve.
- SSL does not accept photocopied excerpts of published books owned
in any of the Yale libraries -- the book will be placed on reserve instead.
- SSL cannot accept photocopies of entire books unless they are in the
public domain or the faculty member has obtained permission to copy;
this applies to out-of-print materials as well as in-print material.
- SSL will return photocopies or "course packets" submitted for 2-Hour
Reserve when they do not comply with restrictions outlined in the Statement.
