To facilitate your students' access to class readings, please provide citation information on your syllabus and list citation information for photocopied materials on the reserve copyright agreement.

If you provide the library with file folders for photocopied materials, please ensure that the citations you provide on your syllabus match the information on the file folder tabs.

Loan Period for Reserve Items

A typical loan period for course reserves is two hours, with use in library only. The other durations of loan periods are one day and three days. There is a checkout limit of two reserve items at a time; this may be overridden by staff.

Lane Library will not place the following types of materials on reserve:

• Interlibrary loan items
• Reference items
• Periodicals
• Microfilm
• Special Collections (items from Closed Stacks, Alumni, Faculty, etc. collections)
• Anthologies or course packs assembled by the instructor may not be placed on reserve without permission of the copyright holders.
• Consumable works such as workbooks
• Photocopies of books or articles that do not meet the copyright guidelines outlined below. (See "Alternatives to Photocopying")
• Any non-circulating item
  

Personal copies of items may be put on reserve with the understanding that the library is not responsible for the security of those items. 

• The brevity test allows photocopying of a complete article, story or essay of fewer than 2,500 words or an excerpt from any prose work of not more than 1,000 words or 10 percent of the work, whichever is less.  A minimum of 500 words is allowed in all circumstances.
• The spontaneity test requires that copying be done at the inspiration of the individual teacher and that the decision to use the work and the moment of its use for maximum teaching effectiveness are so close in time that it would be unreasonable to expect a timely reply to a request for permission.
• To meet the cumulative effect test the material copied must be for only one course in the school; no more than one short article, essay or two excerpts may be copied from the same collective work or periodical volume during one class term; there shall be not more than nine instances of multiple copying for one course during a given term.

What do these restrictions mean for reserves at Lane Library?
Photocopied items placed on reserve for more than one semester for the same class (including non-contiguous semesters) do not meet the spontaneity test for fair use and therefore require permission from the copyright holder.

Alternatives to photocopying:

• If an article is available full text in one of our databases, you can place the link on your syllabus. To find out if the full text of an article is available, follow the instructions on this page: http://www.ripon.edu/library/support/fulltext.htm
• Many journal and newspaper articles are easily available to students through the library's print, microfilm and online database collections. The library will work with you to find alternatives to photocopying, such as teaching students to find the print, microfilm and electronic copies of articles needed.
• In lieu of photocopying chapters, place the entire book on reserve. If the library does not own a copy of the book in question, please let us know.

No more than three photocopies of one item may be put on reserve.

All photocopies on reserve will bear a copyright notice: "NOTICE: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code.)." The Library will provide this.

Before placing a photocopied item on reserve, the instructor must sign the library's reserve policy copyright agreement.

If it's the first time you've ever used the photocopied item for your class:

• Provide the library with the photocopies. The Library will not make photocopies for reserve.
• Write citation information on the front page of all photocopied items submitted for reserve.
• Sign the library's reserve copyright agreement.

If you have used the photocopy more than once for your class:
Instructors are responsible for securing copyright permissions for photocopies that exceed the brevity, spontaneity and cumulative effects tests described above. Any fees associated with permission also are the responsibility of the instructor. Securing permission can take time, so please plan ahead.
 
The Copyright Clearance Center can provide permissions for many publications:
Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
222 Rosewood Drive
Danvers, MA 01923
Tel: (508) 750-8400
Fax: (508) 750-4744
http://www.copyright.com/