Course Reserves
There are two general types of Reserve material:
Course ReservesItems which have been selected by faculty/instructors for special class use. Typically these may be checked out for use within the library for up to two hours at a time. Because these items are subject to heavy demand during a brief period, the intent is to make them as available as possible to all the students for whom they are assigned.Permanent Reserve Materials
Items not associated with a specific course, yet are held in the Reserve collection in order to maximize public access to the material. Independent Study courses are placed on permanent reserve.
Assigned readings on Reserve are available to all library users, though non-University borrowers are restricted to using materials within the library.
Exams / quizzes / homework solutions
The UGRL does not hold these items. The BoilerCopyMaker, located in Room 157 of the Purdue Memorial Union, distributes quizzes and exams that instructors have made available for students. For more information, call the BoilerCopyMaker (a division of Printing Services) at 496-3888.
Departmental libraries may hold these for selected classes.
Please note: Reserve policies may differ in other Libraries locations.
Undergraduate Library serves all courses in Liberal Arts, Education, and Consumer and Family Sciences, as well as selected (generally lower-division) courses in Management, Supervision, and Agricultural Economics. Non-print materials (videos and dvds) can also be found here.
Departmental Libraries:
- Aviation Technology Library serves all Aviation Technology courses.
- Chemistry Library serves Chemistry courses, 200 level and higher. A resource room (WTHR 117) houses class reserves for first year courses.
- Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Library serves Earth and Atmospheric Sciences courses, 300 level and higher.
- Engineering Library serves all Engineering and Technology courses.
- Life Sciences Library serves Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Animal Science, Botany, Entomology, Food Sciences, Horticulture, and Landscape Architecture courses.
- Management and Economics Library serves graduate level Management courses.
- Mathematical Sciences Library serves Math, Computer Science, and Statistics courses, 300 level and higher.
- Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences Library serves Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences courses (including some Biochemistry).
- Physics Library serves all Physics courses.
- Veterinary Medical Library serves all Veterinary Medicine courses.
Generally, the loan period is two hours and the materials must remain in the library. Multiple items, up to five, may be borrowed for 15 minutes. Media reserves may be used on equipment located in the UGRL library. Reserve books may be borrowed overnight, if checked out within two hours of closing.
