The RIT Library has a print reserve process available. If you would like a print book placed on reserve the process is below.
If you have an electronic item you would like to share with students in your class, you can link to it directly in your myCourses shell. If it is a library item make sure to use a Persistent Link which will work off-campus. Using a Persistent Link from a library database will guarantee you are linking to an authorized copy of an item and the library can get usage stats to help argue for continued access.
Link to library items. Do not download library PDFs and upload to myCourses. This would be an unauthorized use of library resources. Use Persistent Links to make sure the library can get usage stats to help argue for continued access.
Search our Course Reserves by either the course name or number, or by the instructor's last name. If we have the book on reserve, a catalog record will display with a call number that can be used to request the book at the Circulation Desk. If nothing is found, we may not have the textbooks for this course in the library.
The library does not proactively add course textbooks to our collection. But professors can request that we buy one copy of a textbook and have it placed on print reserves. Keep in mind this is a shared copy, will not include electronic supplements. If you are using a non-textbook book as a course reading we may have it in print or in one of our e-book databases. Most but not all e-books are cataloged in our catalog.
Use of RIT resources is reserved for current RIT students, faculty
and staff for academic and teaching purposes only.
Please contact your librarian with any questions.
