Please visit our E-Reserves and Reserves page for details.

If you encounter issues please contact:

• Laura Browne, Senior Library Assistant, Circulation & Reserves
• lbrowne@risd.edu or libreserves@risd.edu | 401 709-5907 

Course Reserves (electronic)

Use the Reserves Faculty Request Form to make all Reserve requests.

Guidelines:

• Fair use – case specific, 1 chapter, 1 article or 10% - whatever is less;
  good faith or public domain (before 1923) may be posted without copyright permission.
• Links to online articles to which the Library has access may be included.
• Library staff will scan items that are copyright compliant for E-Reserves and try to get copyright permission for those that are not.
• Each course can be password protected (provided by the instructor).
• Reserves are available for a specific semester/range of dates.
• Reserves are not downloadable.
• The scanning resolution is scan to screen.

Course Reserves (non-electronic)
Books, media and photocopies of articles may be placed On Reserve at the Circulation Desk. Use the Reserves Faculty Request Form to make all Reserve requests.
 

Guidelines:

• Most items remain on reserve for the entire semester.
• You may add items or remove items throughout the semester.
• Personal copies of books and media may be placed on Reserve.
• Reserve lists from previous years will be archived and can be re-activated.
• Links to online articles to which the Library has access may be included.
• A direct link to the Course Reserves can be sent to faculty for distribution.

Curricular Video Reserve
If you have a film(s) you want to show for Class Reserve via Canvas, please contact Marc Calhoun. Some films can be sourced from Library streaming platforms, and titles from the physical Library collection can be scanned and inserted into your Canvas class page via Panopto player.  Please let us know what it is and we’ll source it.

Turnaround time is anywhere from a week to month, depending on varying factors, so please try to give us as much lead time as possible. Any questions, please contact: Research/Catalog Librarian, Marc Calhoun mcalhoun@risd.edu

You can assign a students or Teaching Assistant to be a Deputy Borrower. This will permitted the student or TA to check out library materials for a you.

Materials handled by Deputy Borrowers are checked out to the faculty member’s RISD library account. Deputy Borrowers must show their RISD ID in order to check out items for faculty. Each faculty member may have one Deputy Borrower at a given time.

• Deputy Borrowing Application