Add Course Materials to the Physical Collection
To have materials added to the reserves collection please complete the:
Online Reserves Request Form
College Library will place books, readers, and media items in a special course reserves collection. Items in this collection have restricted circulation periods and are intended to be available for students as an alternative to purchasing materials for a course.
If you provide us your list of course materials using the online form, we can arrange to borrow or purchase most titles.
College Library accepts reserve requests at any time and processes them in the order received. Processing delays may be expected at the beginning of the semester. Please request reserve materials as early as possible before they will be needed by the class.
Course Packets & Personal Copies
You may provide us with copies of course packets which we will bind and add to our physical collection. Course packets available for purchase at any local copy center cannot be scanned for electronic reserves. Although every effort is made to provide security for all materials, the library cannot be responsible for the theft or mutilation of your personal copies.
You may also provide us with personal copies of items you're willing to circulate to students. Personal copies will be marked with College Library collection labels and, although every effort is made to provide security for all materials, the library cannot be responsible for the theft or mutilation of your personal copies.
To have course packets or personal copies added to the Reserve Collection, drop them off or send them to the Reserves Acquisitions Office, 1191A College Library with this cover sheet.
Place Course Materials Online
Instructors may choose to use one of the course management programs to make readings available to students, use the library electronic reserves service, or some combination of these. For more information about these options, see the general library reserves information page.
To have materials added to electronic reserves please complete the:
Online Electronic Reserves Request Form
College Library provides an electronic reserves service which links students to online course materials such as syllabi, book chapters, articles, or audio clips. With complete citation information, we can link to material already available online through the library subscriptions or on the free web. You can also provide us with electronic files or photocopies of documents which we will evaluate for fair use and make available online.
Materials are processed in the order in which they are received and as quickly as possible. Processing delays may occur at the beginning of the semester.
View Your Course Reserves
You and your students can view the list of titles on reserve for your courses by selecting the Course Reserve tab in MadCat. Help with Course Reserve searching is also available in MadCat Help.
Electronic Reserves can be accessed by logging into your MyUW account and clicking the Academics tab.
Link to Reserves from Your Course Pages
You can add a link on your web page for your course to the list of titles in MadCat by creating a "canned search." Canned searches allow you to provide a dynamic link to a particular title or set of records in MadCat. Instructions for creating canned searches can be found in the MadCat Help information at: http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/help/cannedsearches.htm.
Electronic Reserves will be automatically displayed in your Learn@UW page once we have set them up.
If you do not have a home page for your course but would like one, contact the Division of Information Technology (DoIt).