Library

It is the Library's practice to place on Reserve materials that are required readings for courses taught at the University of Balamand. Reserve items are kept behind the circulation desk and circulate on a short loan basis. Placing required readings on reserve allows many students to access each item within a relatively short time period.

The UOB loan period for reserve materials:

Desk Reserve: two-hour loan period

Overnight Reserve: checked out overnight and is due at 9:00 a.m. the next morning

Recommended or suggested readings are left in the open stacks which allows those students doing more serious research to check them out for 2 weeks at a time, subject to recall if needed.

The Library will not violate copyright regulations and will put on reserve original copies of books. We will place on reserve photocopies of journal articles, chapters of out-of-print books, etc. if supplied by the instructor. Photocopies should be placed in clearly labeled manila folders or bound. All materials so supplied will be returned to the instructor at the end of the semester.

2. Basic procedures: Faculty members should submit all requests to the Circulation Librarian.

2.1 Deadlines: All materials to be placed on reserve should be submitted two (2) weeks before the materials are assigned.

2.2 Reserves Request Form: Upon handing in material for reserve, a copy of the Reserve Request Form should be handed in to the Circulation Librarian.

Book(s) / Journal Article(s) / Multimedia Reserve

2.3 Getting materials to the Reserve Desk: Each faculty member should bring all materials that are normally shelved in the UOB Libraries, plus photocopied articles and personal materials to the Reserve Desk.

It is a great help to the Reserves staff if you bring all materials for a course at one time.

2.4 Items at other UOB libraries: Materials from other UOB libraries may be placed on reserve by listing them on your reserve form. Please be sure to indicate their locations and the staff will retrieve these materials. Items may be placed on reserve at the reserve desks at all UOB libraries (on and off campus).

2.5 Journal articles: Please make photocopies of specific articles to place on reserve and bring them in transparent envelope with your reserve request form. Photocopies are relatively fragile and are, therefore, likely to show some wear and tear from heavy use. Normally the library will accept no more than two copies of a photocopied item for reserve.

Whole periodicals, either bound or unbound, which belong to UOB Libraries may not be placed on reserve. Photocopies may be placed on "desk reserve" only.

2.6 Personal copies: Personal copies of books and other materials may be placed on reserve. For your protection, a security device will be placed in every personal copy placed on reserve. Because personal copies of books placed on reserve receive heavy use by many different people, they may show some signs of wear from usage.

2.7 Faculty checkout of reserve items: Faculty members who check out materials from the Reserve Desk are urged to return them on the due date if the books are not a part of their own reserve lists. If you wish to keep materials that are on another professor's reserve list for longer than the specified borrowing period, please obtain advance permission from the professor who has the materials on reserve.

2.8 Removing Items From Reserve: Materials are removed from reserve at the end of each semester. Instructors may also request removal of items from their course reserve at anytime during the semester. At the end of each semester, all materials on reserve must be removed or renewed for the following semester.

Toward the end of the semester, instructors will receive a Release/Retain notification via e-mail from the library. The faculty member should indicate whether the materials are to be released or retained for the next term. If the instructor does not return a Release/Retain form, the materials will be removed from Reserve. All personal materials will be returned to the instructor.