Course reserves are a great opportunity for your professors and the Library to help make your course materials available to you – at no charge! If your professor puts something on course reserve, this means the Library makes it available to all students in the course. The Library offers two types of reserves: online and hard copy. If your professor mentions you have a course reserve reading, you can go to the Library’s home page, click on Course Reserves, and enter in the course number or professor’s last name. When you click on the appropriate course or professor, a list of the available readings will appear. Click on “Reserve Detail” – here you will find the specific items. When the reserve location is “Online Reserve,” all you have to do is click on the URL link, and your reading file will pop up as a pdf download. You can print the file, or you can feel free to read it on-screen. Hard-copy reserves (actual old-fashioned paper copies of books and articles, and sometimes boxes of rocks!) are located at the Library’s circulation desk, immediately to your left as you enter the Library. Anybody at that desk can help you find a course reserve, as well as check it out to you. Just a note: hard copy course reserves have a limited checkout limit (usually 3 hours) to ensure that everyone has a chance to use them, so don’t wait until the last minute, or there might be a line for the one you need! – Colleen Harris, Head of Access Services