Reserve

RESERVE COLLECTIONS
 

Selected textbooks and other course-related materials are kept on reserve behind the information services desk.  Ask for assistance at the Matas Information Services Desk for assistance retrieving the materials you need.  During the day these items are used within the Matas Library.  Most items may be checked-out overnight, two hours prior to closing and must be returned one hour after the library opens the next day.

Several groupings of books are kept for users behind the Matas Library Services Desk. 

CLASS RESERVE

Class Reserve books are generally placed in this area when a group of students will be using the items for a specific semester or period within a semester.   These books may be required textbooks or books with required readings assigned during the semester.  Faculty members and teaching assistants or library staff may assign a book to this collection to make it more readily available to a group of users during a limited time period.  The Matas Library generally only has one copy of texts and these required materials.   Matas Class Reserves are listed by title in this Library Catalog search.

GENERAL RESERVE

Heavily used or major speciality references that are used throughout the year for medical students, faculty and staff are kept behind the desk.   Examples of books on General Reserve are the pathology, physiology and anatomy texts used by all the medical students.  Traditionally medical speciality 'bibles' that are frequently used for overview or basic information may be found in this section.  Many of the General Reserve texts or at least clinical texts with similar are also available online in resources such as MDConsult, AccessMedicine and Stat!Ref.  Older editions of these books may be borrowed for longer periods of usage from the Matas Book Stacks.

BORROWING and FINE POLICIES

Reserve books may be checked out for two hours for library use only.  Most reserve materials may also be checked out of the library two hours before closing and are due one hour after opening the next day. Fines of $1.00/hour are charged for overdue reserve items.

Holds may not be placed on Reserve items online, however users waiting for a book that is in Library Use, may request for paging service from the Matas Information Services Desk when that book is returned to the desk. Paging is done on a first come, first serve basis, but requesters must remain in the Matas library for this service to be available.