Course Reserves / Scan Service
General Information
Lectures can provide important literature for individual courses in the current semester as course reserves. The following two options are available:
- digitally in the Moodle learning platform
and / or - in the respective departmental library
The following applies to the course reserves in a departmental library:
The literature that has been compiled by lecturers in the form of course reserves for individual courses is kept on a separate shelf in each departmental library and is arranged alphabetically according to the names of the organisers. Borrowing a title from a course reserve is only possible with the authorisation of the responsible lecturer. The library accepts an email from the lecturer to the user stating the title and the authorised loan period of the media as proof.
List of the course reserves in the library (in German only)
Setting up a course reserve
Digital Course Reserve for Course Sites
We offer lecturers a scanning service for setting up a digital course reserve. The selected documents are scanned by us and made available for you to download.
You can then upload the documents to a learning management system (Moodle), provided that the copyright regulations are observed. We digitise for you within the framework of applicable copyright law
- articles from journals and excerpts from books in the library's collection
- your photocopies.
Please submit a list of the desired documents or the documents to be scanned to the person in charge responsible for your subject collection. All we need for each course reserve is the reference number of the course (eKVV) and, if possible, complete bibliographical details of the documents (with call number and media number for works from the University Library holdings).
Copyright information sheet (PDF, in German only)
Course Reserve in the Library
Media from the library's collection are placed on a shelf in the respective departmental library.
- First send a reference list to the person in charge at the relevant departmental library. To do this, you can use the following instructions for sending reference lists directly from our Catalogue.plus. We will reserve books on loan for you. Unfortunately, journal volumes from other departmental libraries, interlibrary loan books and books from the special collections cannot be placed in course reserve collections.
- Titles not available in the library can be added to your course reserve list as order requests.
- You can also place a folder with photocopies in your course reserve - please make sure that the folder is labelled as clearly and informatively as possible. (If you only want to offer a folder with photocopies, please give this folder to the person in charge, who will then reserve and label a permanent place on the shelf).
- If the required literature is not available and cannot be procured, it is also possible to place private media in a course reserve on request. This is done under exclusion of warranty. Bielefeld University Library accepts no liability for material defects or theft.
- After processing by the person in charge, you will receive a complete list of the titles you have made available to your students this semester.