Reserves are available at the NSCAD University Library Circulation Desk. You may borrow reserve material using your NSCAD student ID which becomes your library card. You can search the Novanet Catalogue, using the Reserves tab, to find out what is on reserve for your course or instructor.
Reserve Circulation and Availability
Books and individual copies of articles and chapters on reserve are available for 3 hours use in library and 1 hour use outside the library. Copying of these materials is permitted provided you follow fair dealing copying guidelines.
Please supply a course syllabus when submitting material for reserve. All items placed on reserve must be listed on a Faculty Reserve Request Form. If you would like to request a DVD, audio or other media, please fill out a VRC Reserve Form. Reserves are normally processed in the order in which they arrive at the library.
Reserve Circulation and Availability
Books and individual copies of articles and chapters on reserve are available for 3 hours use in library and 1 hour use outside the library. Copying of these materials is permitted provided you follow fair dealing copying procedures.
Books, Exhibition Catalogues, DVDs, etc.
Items available from NSCAD University Library
If the items on your reserve form are available from the NSCAD Library they can usually be processed within 2-3 days. Items on loan will be recalled and placed on reserve when returned.
Items available from other Novanet Libraries
Items from other Novanet Libraries are only placed on reserve by permission of the owning Library. Please allow 7-10 days for processing if these items are on the shelf & slightly longer if the items are in circulation.
Individual Required Readings in Books or Journals
Individual required readings can no longer be photocopied and placed on reserve. However, the original source (book, journal issue, etc.) may be placed on reserve and students may make a copy of the reading for their own use following fair dealing copying procedures.
Personal Copies of Books
Whenever possible, the Library purchases books requested for reserve rather than place personal copies on reserve. If a personal copy must be placed on reserve in the interim, the material will be barcoded with a label identifying the owner, a call number placed on the spine of the book, and a security strip added. We make every effort to safeguard Reserve material, however, the Library cannot accept responsibility for lost and/or damaged items.
Required Texbooks
Currently, the Library's policy is not to place required textbooks for sale in the book store on limited term reserve.
Photocopied Material - Optional or Supplemental Readings Only
Individual Articles or Chapters
Photocopies of individual articles or chapters may be placed on reserve and students only if they are:
* optional or supplemental readings;
* there is no online equivalent in NSCAD's collection;
* the sum of the photocopies are no more than 25% of the entire required readings for the one course; and
* no more than one chapter is copied from a single book.
For copies of optional or supplemental readings, one photocopy per 30 students is permitted. Please provide a copy of the course syllabus with the articles and ensure that a full citation, including the author, publisher, and original source, appears on all photocopies. Note that whenever possible and available, the original source is placed on reserve which students may read in library, photocopy, scan etc. following fair dealing copying guidelines on campus.
See the section titled Individual Required Readings in Books or Journals for procedures concerning required readings.
In Summary, items not eligible for reserve include:
- materials received through interlibrary loan;
- current issues of periodicals;
- articles for which the full-text is available through the Library’s digital collections; and
- required course textbooks; and
- photocopies of required readings (must be optional or supplemental).
Contact
For assistance with reserves please contact Janice Fralic-Brown at 494-8229 or by email.