Library Course Reserves

The Library offers both Print and Electronic Course Reserves. Materials accepted for placement on Reserves include: CSULA regular circulating books, personal copies of books and other course-related material, most government publications, copies of articles, and copies of book chapters. CSULA periodicals or material owned by another library are not placed on reserve. Copyrighted material that has been photocopied must comply with United States Copyright Law.


Electronic Reserves
Print Reserves
Student Access


Students can access readings online on demand - anytime, anywhere.
 

Students can check out material for a limited time period. This time period ranges from 1 hour to 7 days and is set at the instructor's discretion.

Self-Service

You can link to articles from library databases and place the link in your WebCT site or on your class web site. See our guide on Linking to Articles for more information.

Students can begin accessing the material as soon as you post the link.

Students can also access this material off campus by logging in with their NIS username and password.

Faculty may submit their personal material or submit books retrieved from the Library stacks for placement on reserve at the Circulation Desk, First Floor, Library North.

Submit materials with a Course Reserves List (books or articles) at the Circulation Desk. You can submit the article form to reserves@calstatela.edu as an email attachment if the Library owns all the articles you requested online and you provide article level links for each of your articles.

Materials will be available to students within 3 working days (M-F) after the day of receipt.

Full Service











 

Faculty may submit articles, class notes, exams, overheads, student papers and book chapters to be placed on Electronic Reserve.

Submit materials with a Course Reserves List (books or articles) at the Circulation Desk. You can submit the article form to reserves@calstatela.edu as an email attachment if the Library owns all the articles you requested online and you provide article level links for each of your articles.

Students access materials using a password assigned by the instructor.

Processing can take 3-5 working days (M-F) after receipt of materials.

Includes retrieval of books from the Library's collection, making photocopies of articles and book chapters from materials in the Library's collection, and obtaining books not owned by the Library by rush order for books, or document delivery for articles.

For this service submit a completed Reserve Request Form.

Use the  Online Public Library Catalog (OPAC) to confirm that the Library owns the needed materials and enter the call number, author and title of book.

For journal articles, enter journal name, date, volume, issue, pages, author, and title of the article to be copied in the journal box.

Full processing of Library owned materials may take 5 working days
(M-F)
to complete.

Books and articles not listed in the Library's online catalog or databases may be rush ordered by noting Please order instead of listing the Call Number.

The order process may take one to several weeks, you will be notified by email when ordered material arrives.

 

Questions? Contact Christina Hua at (323) 343-3985 or reserves@calstatela.edu.