AAEL Reserves

Library-wide reserves information: http://www.lib.umich.edu/course-reserves

The Reserves Desk is located on the 2nd floor of the Art, Architecture, & Engineering Library. Here you can find books and materials that have been placed on course reserve at the Art, Architecture, & Engineering Library for the semester, as well as the Permanent Reserves collection.

Phone: 734-647-5747
Email: aael.circ@umich.edu

If you need to set up library borrowing priviledges, please visit our AAEL Forms page and fill out the appropriate document.

Electronic Reserves: Information about submitting materials for E-Reserves.

Course Reserves: Information on course reserve materials at the Art, Architecture, & Engineering Library.

How to put items on course reserve at the AAEL

Permanent Reserves: Location and circulation information for the AAEL Permanent Reserves Collection.

Special Items for Checkout at the Reserves Desk

Reserves fine policy

Electronic Reserves

Faculty are encouraged to request articles, book chapters, etc. for course support via the library’s 7FAST service. This service is free for faculty, graduate students, and proxies. Articles and/or book chapters will be posted to faculty as a PDF to a secure website, where one will be able to download that file and post it immediately to CTools course site for direct student access

Course Reserves

The Reserve Collections (Course Reserves and Permanent Reserves) are located at the Circulation & Reserves Desk on the second floor of the Duderstadt Center. All Reserve materials are non-renewable.

The course reserve collection includes materials designated by instructors for limited borrowing periods ranging from 2 hours to 3 days. The course reserve collection varies every semester depending on current course and instructor requests. A list of the current course reserve materials is available in a folder on the counter of the Reserves Desk, and by searching in Mirlyn Classic using the Course Reserve option.

How to put items on course reserve at the AAEL

Faculty instructions and guidelines for submitting reserve requests.

To place items on course reserve, please submit a list using our online request Form, you may also email your request to  aael.course.reserves@umich.edu, or visit the Reserves Desk on the second floor of the Art, Architecture, & Engineering Library.

If you are interested in having items scanned to be placed on your CTools site for your course, please place your requests through 7FAST. If you have questions visit the FAQ or send an email to aael.course.reserves@umich.edu

When submitting materials, please take into consideration our guidelines which are listed below. Adhering to these guidelines will help get your requests processed more efficiently.

Guidelines

• The following information is required:

  • course number
  • section number (if applicable)
  • professor's name
  • professor's e-mail address

• Because of space limitations we have a limit of 25 reserve items per course.

• If an edition is not specified in a request, we will use the most recent edition of the book that the University of Michigan library system has.

• At most we will place one copy of a book on reserve per 50 students.

• Unless requested otherwise, we will allow course reserve items to circulate for 2 hours at a time. However, you may request to have the loan period changed to 4 hours, 1 day, or 3 days.

Permanent Reserves

The Permanent reserve collection is located at the 2nd floor Circulation & Reserves Desk. It includes permanent reserve books, CAEN manuals, and other special items.

Permanent Reserve Books

The library materials on permanent reserve are generally high traffic, expensive, or delicate items. These items are available for a 4 hour maximum loan period. Permanent reserves are restricted to building use only with a maximum of 2 items per check out. If the book is checked out 4 hours prior to closing of the Reserves Desk it must be returned before the Reserves Desk is closed. The materials cannot leave the building and need to be returned at the Reserves Desk.

CAEN Manuals

These manuals accompany the software used in the CAEN computing labs. They are cataloged in Mirlyn and are available for 4 hour loan periods.

Old Exams are no longer kept at the Reserves Desk.

Special Items for checkout at the Reserves Desk

Ethernet and Wireless cards, Laptop Locks, Sound Meters, Calculators, Headphones, etc.

The Art, Architecture & Engineering Library offers various special items for checkout. Anyone with library borrowing privileges may checkout these items. They are available on a first come, first served basis.

Laptop Locks (1 day loan)                            Locker keys (1 day loan)

Markers and Eraser set (4 hour loan)          Headphones (4 hour loan)

Calculators (4 hour loan)                              Drawing sets, Calipers, Rulers (4 hour loan)

Film/Slide Holders (4 hour loan)                  Light Box (4 hour loan)

Wacom Graphics Pens (4 hour loan)            Stop Watch (4 hour loan)

Ethernet Cables(4 hour loan)                        DV Converter (4 hour loan)

Planimeters (4 hour loan)                             Sound Meters (4 hour loan)     

Small Microfiche Reader (does not print, 1 day loan)        

Reserves fine policy

All reserve materials have an overdue fine of $1.00 per hour for each hour or fraction of an hour. Reserve materials include:

• Books
• Course Reserve items, PC's
• CD-ROMs
• Specialty items
• Permanent reserves

Reserve fines are binding for all library patrons.

Fines accumulate 24 hours a day, each day of the year.