Course Reserves Information for Instructors

The UCLA Library's course reserves service provides access to course materials through the Library. When an instructor makes a course reserve request, materials are relocated to the circulation desk of the library specified in the request. Each course reserve item has a loan period of 2 hours. This guarantees that students have fair access to the materials throughout the duration of the course.

Many reserve items are materials already owned by the Library. If the Library does not own the materials, we will work with you to purchase them.

Types of Reserves

Our reserves include:

• General Reserves: Items on reserve for a single quarter.
• Permanent Reserves: Items that are rare, out-of-print or on reserve for more than one quarter.
• Personal Copies / Faculty Copies: Items not owned or purchased by the Library but held temporarily for reserves.
  • Instructors must fill out the Personal Copy Reserve Form(opens in a new tab) and turn it in along with their personal copy materials in order to place them on reserve.
• Course Readers / APS Readers: Paper-bound collections of materials that are selected and arranged by an instructor for a particular class.
• Building Use Only: Rare, fragile or special collections items that do not circulate and can only be used at or behind a circulation desk.
• Electronic Reserves: Items made available online.
  • These materials do not have loan periods enforced by the library, but may have user-access limits enforced by the license.
  • Instructors are advised to use electronic resources already licensed by the Library or Open Educational Resources. If no such resources meet the needs of the course, instructors may request scanned portions of the material be placed on reserve. Instructors are responsible for ensuring their requested scanning and use of materials satisfies fair use guidelines. See the University of California Office of the President Fair Use Guidance webpage(opens in a new tab) for more information.

• Digital Audio Reserves: Audio reserves are provided by the Music Library. Please email music-circ@library.ucla.edu(opens in a new tab) with requests or questions.
• Video Reserves: Instructors may request to have their class reserve videos linked to their course web page. These requests are handled by the Instructional Media Collections and Services(opens in a new tab).

Accessing Reserves

• UC Library Search: Items can be viewed through UC Library Search(opens in a new tab) by searching the instructor name, department name or course number.
• In-Person: Items will be made available for check out at library circulation desks.
• Bruin Learn: Instructors can create and manage course reading lists directly from their Bruin Learn sites. This helps make course reserve materials more accessible to students and streamlines the reserve request process. Please see our Leganto guide(opens in a new tab) to learn more about how to use Bruin Learn for course reserves.