Faculty Resources

Library Instruction Request

The librarians at Gabriele Library offer library instruction sessions for your classes. Use this form to request library instruction.

Library Reserve Request

Faculty are permitted to place books and photocopied articles on reserve for their courses if they follow the copyright guidelines listed below. Use this form to place material on reserve.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which amended U.S. copyright law to address important parts of the relationship between copyright and the internet. The three main updates were (1) establishing protections for online service providers in certain situations if their users engage in copyright infringement, including by creating the notice-and-takedown system, which allows copyright owners to inform online service providers about infringing material so it can be taken down; (2) encouraging copyright owners to give greater access to their works in digital formats by providing them with legal protections against unauthorized access to their works (for example, hacking passwords or circumventing encryption); and (3) making it unlawful to provide false copyright management information (for example, names of authors and copyright owners, titles of works) or to remove or alter that type of information in certain circumstances.

For more information please visit copyright.gov

Copyright Law - Reserve Guidelines

One copy of any personal copyrighted book, photocopied copyrighted article, or copyrighted DVD or Video may be placed on reserve for the time period of one semester. This falls within the guidelines of Fair Use.
Only original versions of DVDs and Videos may be placed on reserve. No unauthorized copies may be placed on reserve.
According to 17 U.S.C. Section 107 [4], materials cannot be placed on reserve repeatedly because it has a significant detrimental impact on the market for the copyrighted material. After one semester, personal copyrighted books, as well as all articles, CDs, videos, and cassettes must be removed from reserve, and they cannot be placed back on reserve for the following semester. The only way that copyrighted material may be placed on reserve for more than one semester, is if the faculty member receives permission from the person who has copyright of the material. The permission should be in writing, and a copy should be on file at the library.
A faculty member may not place more than one copy of a copyrighted article on reserve unless it meets the following requirements:
- The amount of material should be reasonable in relation to the total amount of material used in the class.
- The number of copies should be reasonable in relation to the number of students in the class. An estimate is 1 copy per 10-15 students.
- The material should contain a notice of copyright.
- The library should own at least one copy of the material placed on reserve.
- Timeliness should be a factor in the need for multiple copies.
- No more than five copies of any article should ever be placed on reserve.