DePaul University Libraries
Course Reserves

FOR STUDENTS

If your instructor has placed course materials (books, articles, etc) on reserve in the library, access the course reserves site online from anywhere.  

You may also access them via the library homepage, using the “Course Reserves” tab in the middle of the page.

Your instructor may also link to e-reserves from your Blackboard course or an online syllabus.

FOR FACULTY

The Libraries offer full service for online and reserve shelf materials. Simply provide a full citation for each item in the Course Readings Request System and we do the rest. For e-reserves, you will receive a link that you can post in Blackboard or other course page.

Material that is immediately accessible (i.e., owned by DePaul and not checked out) is usually available to students in 3 business days. If we need to order the material or recall it from a patron, it could take 2 weeks or more.

Please be aware that there is a severe bottleneck of requests in the first week of classes, so first-week requests should be submitted by these deadlines:

Summer I 2009May 18
Summer II 2009June 22
Autumn 2009August 12
Winter 2010November 30, 2009
Spring 2010March 3, 2010

Please direct questions to your department or school's Reserves Contact or to Paula Dempsey.

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