For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sprague Library is licensing more e-books and streaming media, and its course reserves materials will be available to students mostly online. However, many print books, particularly textbooks, are not for sale to libraries as e-books, even if they are available to individuals. Therefore, instructors are encouraged to request course reserves for Fall \u201920 as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Normally, print books are available for a two-hour loan period through the Library\u2019s Print Reserves collection. Unfortunately, the Library\u2019s ability to provide this service is limited during the pandemic because the Library has adopted a 96-hour quarantine period for handling print or physical materials, based on the Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums (REALM) Project\u2019s research-supported guidelines.\u00a0 The REALM COVID-19 Research Project is being conducted by the global library cooperative OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences and the nonprofit applied science and technology development company Battelle.<\/p>\n
Whenever possible, the Library encourages instructors to assign materials already freely available online or licensed through the library catalog (montclair.edu\/library<\/a>) to help minimize Montclair students\u2019 textbook expenses.<\/p>\n Sprague Librarians can assist instructors in locating textbook alternatives from both existing library e-resources and open educational resources<\/a> (OER), and Access Services staff can assist with scanning and placing selections of material held by the library or provided by instructors through electronic reserves into your Canvas course.<\/p>\n Questions about Course Reserves should be directed as follows:<\/p>\n For course reserves, write to circreserves@montclair.edu<\/a>. For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sprague Library is licensing more e-books and streaming media, and its course reserves materials will be available to students mostly online. However, many print books, particularly textbooks, are not for sale to libraries as e-books, even if they are available to individuals. Therefore, instructors are encouraged to request […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-features","category-reserves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor multimedia reserves, write to shapiros@montclair.edu<\/a>.
\nTo submit a course reserves request, instructors should fill out the Course Reserves Request form<\/a>.
\nFor assistance finding textbook alternatives, contact the appropriate liaison librarian<\/a> or contact our Ask a Librarian<\/a> service.
\nAdditional information about Sprague Library Course Reserves is available through the Course Reserves page on the library website and the library reserves FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"