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Course Reserves: Information for Students

Problems

If you cannot locate a print item, or if you have trouble linking to an ereserve, please contact staff right away. 

If a print item is lost, notify our staff and then try Borrow Direct. 

Reserves at Yale

Types of Reserves

The required and suggested readings for Yale courses are typically placed on course reserve. These may take two forms.

  • eReserves: Available instantly through Canvas.
  • Print reserves: Listed in Canvas, must be checked out from the library

Finding Reserves

In Canvas, you will find a "course reserves" link on the left. Click this link to see reserve materials. You may click on the tags above the list to filter results by relevant week or subject.

Print Reserves

Print reserves are generally shelved separately from the rest of the books in the library. Some reserve materials at Bass are shelved with the general collection. Ask at the circulation desk in the individual library for their location. 

Print reserves have varying loan lengths which are noted in Orbis. Check at the circulation desk at your library for details.

Print reserves cannot be renewed.

Note: Significant fines will apply when reserve materials are held past the time when they are due back. See more fine information below.

eReserves

E-reserves are linked from within Canvas. If you have difficulty accessing a reserve item please email the library immediately at reserves@yale.edu or ask at a circulation desk. We wil attempt to identify the problem and restore access as soon as possible.

Contact Reserves Staff

For specific Yale course reserves:

Arts Library
Email: artslibraryreserves@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-2643

Bass Library
Email: reserves@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-1872

Marx Library
Email: marxreserves@mailman.yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-3439

Divinity Library
Email: divinity.reserves@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-5288

Yale Film Archive
Email: yfareserves@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-0149

Medical Library
Email: cwmlreserves@yale.edu

Music Library 
Email: suzanne.lovejoy@yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-5549

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Warning of Copyright Restrictions

WARNING OF COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS1

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of the copyright materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, library and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than in private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. The Yale University Library reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order, if, in its judgement fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

1 37 C.F.R. §201.14