Electronic Reserves Forms & Procedures

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There are two types of electronic reserves offered by the library: text and audio.

For text materials, the library offers links to full-text articles already available online and scanning of articles not available online. For guidelines on copyright for reserves, please see the library's copyright information page.

For audio materials, the library offers both music and spoken word e-reserves in MP3 format. For guidelines on what types of material may be placed on audio e-reserve, please see the Audio E-Reserve Guidelines.

Links to Full-Text and Audio Materials Already Available Online

The Library subscribes to thousands of electronic journals, e-books, and streaming audio resources; these materials can be linked directly from your course Reserve list. An advantage to using these resources when available, rather than scanning from a print source, is that the Library already has obtained copyright permission to use them as e-reserves. Use the Text Linking Request Form for  Fall '09 , or the Audio Linking Request Form for  Fall '09.

You may also wish to visit the Connecting Full-Text to Your Online Syllabus page for information on how to makes these types of links from your own web pages.

Scanning of Articles Not Available Online

Within the limits of Copyright Fair Use Guidelines, printed materials may be scanned into PDF format to create electronic copies for reserve. We will inform you if we are unable to use material because of copyright restrictions.

To submit articles to be scanned please bring good quality one-sided photocopies along with a copy of your syllabus and a completed electronic reserve scanning form to the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library or Hatch Library Circulation Desk. Photocopies will be returned to you once they have been scanned.

You may scan the articles yourself and submit them as PDF documents via the Submit Scanned Document (PDF) form. Guidelines for scanning are available.

Music E-reserves

Within the limitations of the Audio E-Reserve Guidelines music recordings may be submitted for e-reserves. You may either bring the material to be digitized along with a copy of the Music Digitizing Request Form to the Music Library Reference Desk, or you may submit MP3s via the Submit a Music File (MP3) form.

Spoken Word E-reserves

Within the limitations of the Audio E-Reserve Guidelines spoken word recordings may be submitted for e-reserves. You may either bring the material to be digitized along with a copy of the Spoken Word Digitizing Request Form to the H-L circulation desk, or you may submit MP3s via the Submit a Spoken Word File (MP3) form.

Request Reuse of an E-reserve

To request the reuse of an e-reserve from a previous semester, please submit a Reuse an E-reserve form. Materials will be reused only if copyright permission can be obtained. The Library retains an archive of scanned e-reserves for three years only.

Forms: Listed by Format

Text E-Reserves
Submit Scanned Document (PDF) -   Fall '09
Electronic Reserve Linking Form -   Fall '09
   Link to full text from one of the library's e-journals,
   e-books, or databases.
Electronic Reserve Scanning Form (fill out and use as cover sheet)
   Submit a paper copy of an article to be scanned.
Audio E-Reserves
Submit Music(MP3) -   Fall '09
Electronic Reserve Audio Linking Request Form - Fall '09
    Link to a recording in one of the library's audio services databases.
Music Digitizing Request Form (fill out and use as cover sheet)
    Submit CD, LP or tape to be digitized.
Spoken Word Digitizing Request Form (fill out and use as cover sheet)
    Submit CD, LP or tape to be digitized.
Re-use Text or Audio E-reserve
Request Reuse of an E-reserve from a Previous Semester

For More Information

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library: Phyllis McQuaide at x3280 or contact lib_circ@bowdoin.edu
Hatch Science Library: Sue O'Dell at x3265
Language Media Center: Carmen Greenlee at x3286
Beckwith Music Library: Karen Jung at x3311