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Textbook and Course Reserves

BC and FAU faculty may place materials on reserve in their local library for student use. This includes personal or departmental books and articles, library owned materials, and multimedia items.

Place Materials on Reserve

Instructor Owned Materials

  1. Complete the online form and print out a copy.
  2. Drop off the materials and the printout at the reserves location for your campus.
  3. Please allow up to five working days for processing before informing your students.

Library Owned Materials

  1. Check your campus library's catalog to verify material is available.
  2. Complete the online form.
  3. Please allow up to five working days for processing before informing your students.
  4. Reference and Special Collections materials cannot be placed on reserve without prior permission.

The library staff will strive to ensure that personal materials are handled appropriately. However, we cannot be held responsible for the abuse, destruction, loss, and/or theft of personal or department-owned items placed on reserve.

At the end of each term, your reserve items will be returned unless prior arrangements have been made for continued reserve status.

Reserve Locations by Campus

Material Location:

University/College Library (Building 17)
  • Print materials: Check In-Check Out Desk, 1st floor
  • Audio-visual materials: Academic Success Center, 2nd floor

Hours:

Monday to Thursday    7:30am to 9:00pm
Friday                        7:30am to 4:00pm
Saturday                    9:00am to 4:00pm

Sunday                      2:00pm to 9:00pm

Contact us if you have any questions:

Circulation Department
University/College Library
Broward College, Central Campus
3501 SW Davie Road, Building 17
Davie, FL 33314

Phone: 954.201.6649

Material Location:

BC North Regional Library (Building 62)
Academic Success Center, 1st Floor
 

Faculty Textbook and Course Reserve Request Form

Hours

Contact us if you have any questions:                             

 
Kara Mccoy, Faculty Librarian
kmmcoy@broward.edu
954.201.2082

Material Location:

BC South Regional Library (Building 81)
Reference Desk, 2nd Floor
 

Hours

Contact us if you have any questions:

BC South Regional Library Reference Desk: (954) 201-8896

Consider Using OER/ZTC Materials

Contact a Faculty Librarian if you would like to convert your course to a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) course using Open Education Resources (OER) and, possibly, library materials. Get started by clicking on the guide below.

Loan Periods by Campus

Reserve materials are assigned one of the following check-out loan periods set by the department. Instructors may choose from the following: 

  • One (1) hour
  • Three (3) hours
  • Overnight Use
  • Three (3) days
  • Seven (7) days
  • Semester (for Honors Lending Library materials)

Reserve materials are assigned one of the following check-out loan periods set by the department. Instructors may choose from the following: 

  • Textbooks: two (2) hours
  • Student laptops: two (2) hours
  • Headphones: four (4) hours
  • Faculty laptops: seven (7) days
  • Education and some nursing prep materials: seven (7) days
  • Calculators: Semester 

Textbook reserve material can be checked out for two hours, in library use only. A student will need 2 forms of ID to sign out a textbook (Student ID card, Driver's License, library card, etc.).

Copyright Compliance

All materials placed on course reserve must comply with the Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code). In compliance with copyright law, only one copy of photocopied materials may be placed on reserve. Exceptions to this rule are articles authored by the faculty member, solutions to problems of an unpublished nature, and federal or state laws or cases. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept materials for reserve status, if in its judgment fulfillment of the request will be in violation of copyright law.