Faculty and Course Designer Guide to Course Reserves

The current academic periods we’re accepting Course Reserves requests for are:

Winter Quarter 2025

• View Items on Reserve

  Our main system, Leganto, is available as a link in Canvas, just like your tool links for syllabi and course announcements. Physical Reserve items can be found through Compass, the University Libraries Catalog, and is searchable by instructor, course, or title. Filtering your search by Course Reserves can help as well. Streamed video and audio materials are accessible through library databases.

• Placing Course Reserves Requests

  To place a Course Reserves request for a reactivated course, a reactivated course with changes, or a completely new course, complete the appropriate form linked at the top of this page. If you don’t see a form for the academic period you’re hoping to submit a request for, email reserve@du.edu.

  To ensure the quickest fulfillment of your request:

  • Submit your request as early and accurately as possible.
  • Be aware of our copyright guidelines – we are unable to post E-Reserves over 20% of any print book or more than two articles from a single print issue of a journal.
  • Return any items checked out to yourself so library staff can process them for your course.
  • If your course has a CRN, please include it. They can be found in DU’s registration portal.

   

  Reactivations With No Changes

  • Reactivations must be submitted every quarter the class runs: they are not automatically rolled over.
  • We’ll reactivate the course from the previous quarter provided. Please ensure it’s the correct one.

   

  Reactivations With Changes

  • Reactivations must be submitted every quarter the class runs: they are not automatically rolled over.
  • We’ll reactivate the course from the previous quarter provided. Please ensure it’s the correct one.
  • We prefer you submit citations using the template provided. Please include as much information as possible.

   

  New Course

  • New courses tend to take us the longest to create.
  • We prefer you submit citations using the template provided. Please include as much information as possible.
• Deadlines

  Requests to place items on Reserve may take up to three weeks to process. Allow additional time for purchasing and processing materials not owned by the library.

• Copyright Guidelines

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