Geisler Library
Course Reserves Policy
Adopted July 2007
Purpose of Course
Reserves
To support the College’s academic mission, the Library provides course reserves. The Library maintains a physical Reserves Collection consisting of books, scores, audio and video recordings, photocopies, and instructional equipment; and electronic Reserves within the Blackboard course management system. These collections provide quick, easy, and equitable access to materials that are in high demand by students, faculty or staff. Items may be placed on reserve at the request of faculty members to support class instruction, or by administrators to support campus information needs.
Library
Collections
All collections in Geisler Library regardless of format are purchased and provided for the noncommercial, educational use of students, faculty, staff and other authorized users. All library materials are acquired and accepted with the understanding that there will be multiple uses made of them. Frequently, the Library must pay a premium institutional subscription price for journals and electronic databases for the privilege of supporting multiple academic users.
Licenses & Copyright
Guidelines
In accordance with the Copyright Act and Geisler Library contracts with providers of electronic resources, the Library has established guidelines for responsible use of copyrighted materials for Reserves whether these materials are located physically in the library or made available electronically from within the course management system Blackboard.
Licensed works are subject to the terms of the license agreement between the vendor and the library. Licensed works may be reproduced or links to them made from the e-reserves system as long as the license agreement allows such practice.
Electronic copying and scanning of copyright-protected works
for library reserve services fall into an unsettled area of the law which may
be addressed in future revisions of the copyright law or through adjudication.
Fair Use
The Library’s policy governing copies of materials for Reserves is based on the provisions of Fair Use of the US Copyright Act of 1976.
To determine fair use, four factors must be considered:
Since Copyright law provides no clear or direct answers about the scope of Fair Use or its meaning in specific situations, library staff and faculty are compelled to consider all four factors and to reach reasoned and responsible conclusions about the lawfulness of making copies. Reliance on reasoned analysis of the four factors is essential to claiming “good faith.”
Title 17 Section 107 of the Copyright Act expressly permits the making of multiple copies for classroom use. Such educational copying is one of the six illustrative examples that do not require the payment of a royalty or the permission of the copyright owners, provided that the circumstances of the use are fair.
Library staff will consult
the fair use analysis checklist located at http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.pdf
to determine eligibility for copying.
Items for which the instructor owns copyright, government publications, or items in the public domain do not require copyright permission. Library staff will use the following chart http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm for determining if a work has entered the public domain.
Access
Access to Reserves collections is more restricted than access to items in the library’s general circulating collection. Students must present a valid College ID at the Library circulation desk to use the physical reserves collection. Students may make copies for their personal use.
Access to electronic reserves is limited to the students enrolled in that course. Materials are password protected within the Blackboard system. Electronic reserves permit simultaneous use by multiple authorized users. Authorized users may view, download, or print copies from the system.
All items will be removed from Reserves at the end of the semester. Photocopies and personal materials are returned to faculty members. Links to scans and streaming files are terminated at the end of each course. However, provisions will be made for students who need access to Reserve materials beyond the end of a semester and who have permission to take an “Incomplete” and finish the class at a later date.
Decisions &
Appeals
The Library reserves the right to refuse to place on course Reserves any material that appears to violate copyright guidelines.
Please contact the Library Director with questions regarding the Library's
policy or decisions. Appeals of decisions can be made to the Provost.
Requirements for
Placing Materials on Reserves in the Library or from Within Blackboard
Materials will only be placed on Reserves at the request of the instructor. In some cases, it may be it may be easier to purchase multiple copies of items that are in high demand rather than making copies.
Lead-time: To help ensure materials are available for students, faculty should deliver their materials to the library at least two weeks in advance of their use.
Books & Journals: The Library will place on physical reserve, published copies of
books and journals when these works are owned by Geisler Library, another
Links
Unless specifically forbidden by license agreement, Library staff will create links to full-text materials in databases subscribed to by Geisler. Linking to such fulltext is preferred to scanning from originals.
Library staff may create a link to materials freely
available on the Web without violating copyright.
Photocopies or scans lawfully made from materials that are owned by faculty or which Geisler Library already possesses legally by purchase, license, fair use, interlibrary loan, etc., may be placed on Reserves.
Video and audio recordings lawfully owned by the Library or faculty member and rental videos/DVDs may be placed reserve. Off-air recordings may be placed on reserve during the first 10 consecutive school days after the initial recording. Videos/DVDs may be viewed in the Library as “non-public performances” by students enrolled in the course, or they may be checked out for personal viewing outside the Library. Excerpts from video and audio recordings may be streamed from courses within Blackboard and made available for class assignments.
Citations All physical and digital copies as well as links to such copies must include the complete bibliographic citation to the original source (photographer, artist, author, book title, book publisher, article title, journal title, and date) and the original notice of copyright or a generic copyright warning: “This material may be protected by copyright (Title 17 U.S. Code).”
Limitations
The Library may need to limit the number of items, or restrict inclusion of materials for copyright reasons. Reserve readings are not meant to substitute for the purchase of materials required for educational purposes.
The Library will not place materials obtained on interlibrary loan on Reserves.
Copies may be made for Reserves if the reproduction
represents a small proportion of the whole copyrighted work. Examples include a
single chapter from a book, a single article from a journal, a few news
articles, a few art images, excerpts from a CD or short clips from a video/DVD.
Reserves copying cannot be used to create, to replace, or to substitute
for anthologies, compilations or collective works.
Consumable materials such as test forms and workbook pages
and works typically purchased or acquired by students for their independent use
and retention (coursepacks, textbooks, etc.) will not be placed on Reserve.
The total number of items processed for e-reserves by library staff for each course should not exceed 25.
Permissions and
Fees
Using the same materials
repeatedly or long term within the same course may require permission from, and
requisite payment to, the holder of the copyright.
When library staff determine that
copying exceeds Fair Use, staff will ask the faculty member to request
copyright permission the
Additional
Resources
Many copyright resources, including links to the US Copyright Office, several academic institutions, permissions, and fair use information are found at the Geisler Library website http://www.central.edu/library/copyright.htm.
Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to complete
copyright specific training that may be found online.
COPYRIGHT BASICS from the U.S. Copyright Office is a clearly written guide to
copyright. http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html