Media Reserves

The recent survey indicated that many of you do not know where to find media reserves. While our catalog puts books and audio and visual media items in the same reserve collection online, they are actually housed in different places within the Library building.

Professors regularly put media items on reserve in the IRC. Even if those items are in DVD or videocassette format, they are placed on a reserve shelf that is never locked - our only exception to that shelving rule. So any time the Library is open, you can retrieve a media reserve item, watch it in the Center, and place it back on the shelf. If you want to watch it overnight, you can check it out two hours before the Library closes and return it by 9:30 a.m. the next morning.

When you enter the door to the IRC, the unlocked media reserve cabinet will be in front of you on the left side of the stairs going up to my office. Reserve items are shelved by class and labeled as such, so you should have no trouble finding what you need.

Ann