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Course Readings & Course Reserves

In Winter 2021, the Bookstore's coursepack service was replaced with听海角社区 Libraries' new听Course Readings Service.听The change to the coursepack process emerged in response to student concerns about the high cost of course material affecting access to higher education. This听has allowed us to provide students with access to course material through the Libraries' collection or by licensing works for use by your class at no additional cost to the student. Please review the instructions for an appropriate library location below and fill in the听Instructor Requests: Course Readings form.

Course readings and reserves

Producing print coursepacks is not part of the new Course Readings Service.

Course readings can be made available for your students in several ways:

  • Electronic resources听that are part of the Libraries' collection can be made available through the听听system.
    • Alternatively, you can also link to materials at the Libraries听directly on myCourses听(using the 鈥淐reate New > WebLink鈥� feature).
  • If we do not yet own the materials needed for your courses, contact your Liaison Librarian to investigate the possibility of purchasing them, or听directly contact our Collection Services by using the Purchase Request Form.
  • Electronic readings that we are not able to add to the Library鈥檚 collection will be听licensed (if appropriate) for use in the requested course听and provided to instructors as PDFs to听.
  • When there are no electronic options, print materials can be made available on 1-day loan in the libraries听and will be listed in the system.

Many for-profit textbook publishers do not sell to libraries, so we are not able to obtain e-book versions from those publishers. For more information, we have a webpage on Commercial Textbooks Challenges.

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Select a branch

Education Curriculum Resource Centre

Course readings and reserves request form 禄

Deadlines

  • Fall term: August 15
  • Winter term: December 1
  • Spring term: April 30
  • Summer term: May 15

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact the library.

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Deadlines

  • Course reserves lists are processed in order of receipt.
  • When possible, reserve lists should be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to the beginning of term for materials to be available for the first week of class.
  • Materials not available in the Library collection will be ordered priority for reserve. At least 6 weeks notice is usually required.
  • A maximum of 30 titles per course will be accepted.
  • The library is happy to work with faculty who wish to create direct links to online documents (e-books, e-journals or online articles) and place electronic copies of readings within myCourses. Please contact your liaison librarian for assistance.

Copyright and reserve photocopying

Faculty are responsible for informing themselves of and complying with all copyright requirements as described on the web site and the , before submitting photocopies to be placed on Reserve. Copies must be supplied by the professor. The Library does not assume photocopying costs.

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact hsslreserves.library [at] mcgill.ca.

Islamic Studies Library

Course readings and course reserves request form 禄

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact the library 禄

Macdonald Campus Library

Reserve lists must be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to the beginning of term for materials to be available for the first week of class.

Materials not available in the collection will be ordered priority for reserve. At least 6 weeks notice is required.

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact the library 禄

Marvin Duchow Music Library

Course readings and course reserves request form 禄

Making course materials available to students:听

  • Submit requests through the Instructor Requests: Course Readings form. Music Library staff will review requests to determine if we hold or can acquire electronic versions.
    • Ebooks听will be听made available through a听 in the Sofia Discovery Tool.
    • For electronic resources such as听online articles and recordings, instructors usually make these available through links on myCourses or in the course outline.
      • Note:
        • The easiest way to ensure off-campus access to electronic resources is to link to the item in the Sofia Discovery catalogue; e.g. for Grove Music Online.
        • If you provide a direct link to the resource, the proxy prefix must be included so that students are prompted to enter their 海角社区 credentials; e.g. (NOT ).
      • For more guidance, see Creating links in myCourses.
    • When there are no electronic options, available physical materials indicated on your request form will be made听accessible at the听Library Service Desk听via short-term (3-hr or 1-day) reserve loans and will appear in a听.听
  • Scanning and uploading print materials to myCourses:
  • If use of a printed course pack is necessary for your students鈥� in-class activities (score study and analysis, annotation of notated music, etc.), please music.library [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Winter%202023%20course%20materials) (consult with us) or coursepacks.ancillary [at] mcgill.ca (contact the Bookstore) to place your request.

Assistance with new acquisitions:听Music Library staff will continue to fulfill purchase requests for course materials not available in 海角社区鈥檚 collection. We encourage you to music.library [at] mcgill.ca (contact us) as soon as possible so we can work to acquire the items.

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact the library 禄

Nahum Gelber Law Library

Course readings and course reserves request form 禄

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact the library 禄

Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering

  • When possible, reserve lists should be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to the beginning of term for materials to be available for the first week of class.
  • Materials not available in the听collection will be ordered priority for reserve. At least 6 weeks notice is usually required.

Questions?

For additional assistance, please contact schulichreserves.library [at] mcgill.ca.

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Alternative: Creating a Scan of Your Print Course Materials Yourself

  • General guidelines:
    • Instructors may be able to scan portions of a book or an article we do not own online. For details, see the Guide on Adding Readings to MyCourses
    • As required by our agreement with Copibec, scanned material must be reported on Savia
      • Need help reporting your scans? Please contact听copyright.library [at] mcgill.ca
      • We can also try to obtain print versions to be scanned for you and send you the links.听Contact your Liaison Librarian听or use听the Purchase Request Form.
  • Scanning print materials using your mobile device (IOS and Android):
    • The OneDrive for Business app will allow you to create a multi-page scan of a print document using the camera of your mobile device. The resulting document is automatically saved as a pdf.听
      • Download and install the One Drive app to your mobile device
      • Sign-in using your 海角社区 username and password
      • For more information, please see Microsoft's
      • Need help? itsupport [at] mcgill.ca (contact ICS) for technical assistance
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