Introduction

The Eckhart Reserve Processing Staff prepares material for course reserve for undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics, statistics and computer sciences.

The Reserve Processing Staff provides the following services:

• places material from the University of Chicago Library's general collections on Reserve
• scans and places articles from periodicals and chapters from books on Reserve
• places personal copies of articles, chapters, manuscripts and books on Reserve
• orders material which the Library does not own
• obtains material through Interlibrary Loan for placing on Reserve (this option is the least favorable since most ILL material circulate for a relatively short period of time, making limited scans of certain segments of the desired ILL item will be a reasonable solution)

Deadlines for Submitting Reserve Requests

To ensure that reserve items are available at the beginning of the quarter, materials should be submitted six weeks prior to the start of the quarter. This will allow time for processing, ordering, recalling, photocopying, scanning, etc. Reserve lists may be submitted at any time throughout the quarter. However, lists submitted during the first two weeks of the quarter may take 1-2 weeks to process.

Lists are processed in the order in which they are received.

How to Submit Reserve Requests

Reserve requests can be submitted in any of the following ways:

• in person by dropping off reserve lists and materials to the Customer Service Assistant at the Eckhart Library
• by emailing eck-reserve@lib.uchicago.edu
• filling out the online request form
• faxing your list to 773-702-7535
• sending your request via mail to:
  Eckhart Library
  1118 E. 58th Street
  Chicago, IL 60637
• phoning us at 773-702-8778

For all reserve requests, please be as accurate and complete as possible. Please provide complete citations. Specify author, title, editor, ISBN, publisher, edition (or write "any edition okay"), version, and/or date as appropriate.

If the course has been previously taught, the Reserve staff can provide you with a list of materials on reserve for the course in a previous quarter.

All material on course reserve is required to comply with U.S. Copyright Law.