Electronic Reserves Forms & Procedures

Reserves

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.

Forms

Text E-Reserves
Submit Scanned Document (PDF) -  Fall '08
Electronic Reserve Linking Form -  Fall '08
    Link to an existing full text article from one of the library's databases.
Electronic Reserve Scanning Form
    Submit a paper copy of an article to be scanned.
Audio E-Reserves
Submit Music(MP3) -  Fall '08
Electronic Reserve Audio Linking Request Form -   Fall '08
    Link to a listening from on of the library's audio services databases.
Music Digitizing Request Form
    Submit CD, LP or tape to be digitized.
Spoken Word Digitizing Request Form
    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

Links to Full-Text Articles Already Available Online

If you would like the library to make links from your reserve reading listings in the online catalog directly to online full-text articles, please submit an Electronic Reserve Linking Request Form from the E-reserves Inbox for each article that you wish to have linked. To determine if the library has access to a particular journal online search the library catalog .

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.

For More Information

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library: Phyllis McQuaide (pmcquaid@bowdoin.edu) at x3280
Hatch Science Library: Sue O'Dell (sodell@bowdoin.edu) at x3265
Beckwith Music Library: Paul Hoffman (phoffman@bowdoin.edu) at x3459