The FSU Libraries can provide a wide variety of resources through course reserves via your Blackboard course page, including books, book chapters, journal articles, lecture notes, texts, course syllabi, other types of print materials, video and other forms of media.

• The Online Faculty Course Reserve Form is the required method for listing the items that you want to put on reserve for the current academic term or for future ones.

• Fill out a separate form for each course. The form allows you to submit a variety of materials together. If you need to submit more than 20 items, please submit the form and then fill it out again with the remaining items.

• It may take up to five working days during peak periods such as the beginning of semesters to place items the library owns or licenses on reserve, so submit your lists well in advance of when the material will be needed for your courses.

Placing Materials on Reserve

For books: Provide book information on the online form. If the Libraries holds the book, it will be retrieved from the collection; if it is checked out, a recall notice will be sent to the current borrower. If the Libraries does not own the book, contact the FSU Libraries Head of Monographic Acquisitions (Michael Luesebrink, 644-0468), to discuss options.

For articles: Provide article information on the online form. If the Libraries owns the journal containing the article or licenses a database containing it, the article will be scanned or a link built to it for online access. If the Library does not own the journal, you will be notified and asked to use ILLiad, the FSU Interlibrary Loan System, to request it.

For videos: Provide video information on the online form. If the Libraries owns the video, the Media Center in Strozier Library will manage it as a reserve item. If the Libraries does not own the item, please contact the Media Center at 644-5924 to discuss options.

For personal copies and other materials (books, lecture notes, tests, etc.):

Please bring the items to the Circulation desk in the library where you wish them to be used. If you have these in electronic form such as a Word or PDF file, or can supply a linking URL, please contact the Reserves Staff for more information.

Note: Written copyright permission is required to use scanned items in
consecutive terms, and may be required for items that will be used for
more than one term, even if the terms are not consecutive. See the
Copyright Policy for more information.

Removing Materials from Reserves/ Continuing Use

Items will be kept on reserve for the semester selected on the online form and automatically removed at the end of the semester. Electronic items will be archived with the Blackboard course page.
If you wish to keep any items on reserve for a future term, you will need to update your Instructor/Course Information on the online form and indicate which items should be continued. Please do this before the end of the current term.

Copyright permission may be needed to extend the reserve status of scanned items beyond one term. See the Copyright Policy for more information.

Frequently Asked Questions