music reserves

Requesting music materials for course reserves

University faculty and instructors may request that scores, books, videos/DVDs, and CDs be placed on course reserve to ensure their availability during a particular quarter. Jazz Archive (JzAr) materials do not circulate, and LP recordings (AudDisc) are not accepted by Reserve. If you wish to make material on LPs and cassettes available to students via your Chalk site, please contact the Digital Media Lab as early as possible before the quarter starts to arrange for your student assistant to prepare the material.

Reserve requests for Regenstein books, scores, CDs, and video materials:

Should be sent to Regenstein Reserve using the Reserve Request Form
on the Library's Course Reserve Webpage.
Reserve's deadline is six weeks before the beginning of the quarter
if you want the materials on Reserve by the first day of class.
Please submit at least the first month of your reserve list
by the deadline to increase the chances that your course materials will be available on the first day of class.
If you need to have new sound materials purchased for your course,
please let Reserve know during the quarter BEFORE the one
in which you are teaching. Vendors cannot always provide materials
on short notice, and the Library may have to contact
several vendors before finding the requested materials.
Materials requested at short notice
-- especially during the first two weeks of classes -- may take Reserve
two weeks or longer to process, even if Music staff are able
to pull the materials and send them down immediately.
Please use the Library's streamed music sources
for assigning standard repertoire instead of putting multiple
copies of the same CD on Reserve. This is particularly important
and useful for 100-level undergraduate survey courses, since
streamed materials are available to students at all hours,
even when the Library is closed.
Direct links to the streamed services:
can be found on the Music Library homepage
and our Streamed Music Sources page