Course Reserves (ARES)

Professors may choose to place specific readings in online Course Reserves. ARES is where professors can provide controlled access to copyrighted materials for class use.

Your courses with ARES Reserves will be listed on your ARES homepage.
If you do not see a course you expect, please
- Search for your course(s), if you do not find it:
  Check your D2L course or ask your professor where to find the items.
Feel free to email librarian@ship.edu for assistance.

Spring 2021 Library Reserves

Print Reserves Largely Moved to By Request or Online Availability

Many “reserve” books have been purchased in electronic form, when available and financially possible.
Check the library catalog for immediate availability online.
If a reserve item is not available as an ebook, students may submit a request for up to 10% (or a chapter, if it doesn’t exceed 10%) of a work to be received digitally. If you need more than this, you should pursue options to purchase access to the textbook. Contact the bookstore with textbook questions.
If the library owns multiple copies of a reserve book, a copy may be available for 24 hour (or more) borrowing followed by a 3 day quarantine. This option will not be available for all books. Inquire at the circulation desk about the book you are interested in.

Guidance For Faculty

If you submit a single copy of a physical book that under normal circumstances would have been a 3 hour reserve item, this semester it will be a 1 day loan with a 3 day quarantine. If we have additional copies, one copy will be placed on the lower level to be available for scanning on request by students.
Due to the unique circumstances of this semester, it may be preferable for students to pursue their own copies of textbooks whenever possible.
Online library reserves remain in ARES as usual.

Requesting Library Reserve Items

Ship students can request one chapter or up to 10% of the page-count of a book on reserve. Each student’s request must be handled as a separate scan request to comply with Copyright. Here are the details:

Log in to ILLiad (https://illiad.ship.edu/illiad/)
Create a profile if you don’t already have one (select “Hold for Pickup” as your delivery method)
Create a New Request for a Book Chapter
Enter book information marked with red asterisks *
Enter Chapter information including page numbers (no page numbers means the request will be declined by ILLiad)
Enter anything else with a red asterisk *
Click Submit

These requests may take longer than usual due to high demand, plan ahead and make your request earlier than needed. When the email notification arrives:

Go to ILLiad and log in
Select “Articles Received Online”
Click the Transaction number
Download the article and save it with an understandable file name

How soon do I have to return Reserve materials?

Reserves items may be borrowed one item at a time. Reserves are first-come, first-served; we are unable to hold Reserves items for later pickup and cannot renew these items.

Loan periods

1. Three-hour loans

Only one item is loaned to an individual at a time
Item due at the Reserves Desk three (3) hours after check out
Items charged out less than 1 hour before building closing time will be due within two hours of the next opening time
(becomes an overnight loan).

2. One-day loans

Items due back to Reserves Desk before closing time the day after check out

3. Three-days loan

Items due back to Reserves Desk before closing time three (3) days after check out

4. Seven-days loan (graduate courses only)

Items due back to Reserves Desk before closing time seven (7) days after check out

Overdue Fines on Reserve Materials

Three-hour reserve (overnight loans): $1.00 per hour to a maximum of $100.00.
One, three, and seven-day reserve: $5.00 per day to a maximum of $100.00.

All fines are due and payable when the overdue item is returned. Payment by check, money order, or cash will be accepted. When a reserve item is overdue or reserve fines are charged against your record, you are blocked from further library transactions and a library hold is placed on your student record.

Note: All reserve transactions require presentation of a valid Shippensburg University I.D.