The Library Director oversees Reserves collections maintenance and circulation. Please contact the Library Director at (408) 855-5168 with questions, comments or special Reserves coordination needs. 

 

Reserves collections may be evaluated annually. 

 

Reserves collections are controlled access materials that are located behind the Check Out Desk for the following reasons: 

 

1.           Instructor, administrator, staff development officers, committee chair and board member request.

2.           Special purpose or high use volume (such as current textbooks) as determined by a librarian committee or the Technical Services or Acquisitions Librarian.

3.           Special preservation requirements as determined by the Technical Services or Acquisition librarian. 

Reserve materials may be borrowed by current semester students, faculty and staff of Mission College or West Valley College, whether enrolled in an associated class or not. Reserve materials may not be loaned to Community Users or Visitors. 

 

Reserve materials may be borrowed for use in the Library, only by students.   Reserve materials may not be borrowed for use outside the Library. 

 

Reserve item availability is on a first-come, first-served basis. Reserve items must be requested at the Check Out Desk.   The Library Information Desk and Check Out Desk staff will assist persons in locating Reserve materials. Check Out Desk staff will retrieve and check out Reserve materials upon user request.

 

Library staff will not trace or request Reserve materials when in use by another person. Confidentiality laws prohibit Library staff from disclosing the identity or pointing to persons using Reserve materials. Persons desiring unavailable Reserve materials may not personally patrol nor monitor the use of Reserve materials and may not solicit return of Reserve materials.

 

System holds (reservations) cannot be placed on Reserve materials. When Reserve books are heavily requested, staff will provide title information to the Acquisitions Librarian and the Acquisitions Librarian will order additional copies, if funds allow.

 

Reserve items must be returned to the book drop located under the RETURNS sign at the Check Out Desk. To avoid the risk of loss or theft, never return checked-out items by placing them on the Check Out Desk counter or handing them to an individual.

 

There are currently 9 Reserve collections maintained by Mission College Library: 

 

These are items which personally belong to instructors or college officials.   Only these persons may request that their personal materials be placed on Instructor Reserve. These items are located by instructor name and course name whenever possible. Alternatively, these items may be located by committee name, function name, or generic “Mission College” location when the item may be of high interest to all Mission College affiliated persons. Occasionally call number designation of "XX" will be used for extremely high usage items in the Instructor Reserve category.

Faculty, administrators, staff development officers, committee chairs and board members may place personally owned materials on Instructor Reserve by completing one Mission College Library Reserve Item Registration form for each item to be placed on Instructor Reserve.   Reserve Item Registration forms must be attached to each item, and delivered to the Check Out Desk.

 

Newly received Instructor/Course Reserve items will be processed as soon as possible and will be available for in-library use no later than within 48 hours of receipt.

 

Mission College Library will not be held responsible for the theft, damage or misuse of reserved items.

 

The Library cannot accept textbooks with a publisher's or copyright statement restricting access to the item. This type of statement would include but not be limited to the following:

 

            Instructor Use Only

            Courtesy Copy

            Instructor's Copy

            Not For Resale

 

 

Instructor/Course Reserves Collection Maintenance: Due to space and system maintenance considerations, the Library cannot hold Reserve items perpetually. The Library will regularly send faculty lists of items currently held on Instructor/Course Reserve for periodic cooperative maintenance, and will advise faculty when very low (or zero) usage warrants withdrawal consideration.

 

Before the close of each semester, Instructor Reserves may be reviewed as to usage, copyright status, class offering and condition. Instructor Reserve items which are damaged, unused, of questionable copyright status, or that will not be current with the following semester's course offerings, may be returned via Campus Mail to the owning instructor. 

 

 

Instructor/Course Reserves and Copyright: Materials submitted for Instructor Reserve shall comply with the fair use and permissible use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, and other copyright law.

 

The Library will not reproduce or make available for Reserve any materials obtained from a commercial producer without an instructor-obtained copy of written permission from the producer or distributor. 

Instructor/Course Reserves and the Americans With Disability Act: Videocassette/DVD materials submitted for Instructor Reserve should be closed captioned in accordance with the Mission College Disabilities Instructional Center recommendations and federal law (Mission College Legal Opinion M 02-22 and 36 C.F.R. 1194-24).

 

Instructor/Course Reserves and West Valley Library Materials: Mission College faculty may not place West Valley Library-owned materials on Instructor Reserve at Mission College Library.

 

The Library acquires selected, required course textbooks for the Textbook Reserve collection.

 

In addition, materials in any format (not just textbooks) which belong to Mission College Library may be placed on textbook reserve to facilitate Library of Congress call number organization. Instructors, administrators and officials may request that a maximum of five (5) Mission College Library circulating books be placed on textbook reserve. Mission College Library circulating books may be placed on reserve for a maximum of one semester, and will be subject to recall if another faculty member requests use of the item.

 

No wait lists nor holds will be maintained on Textbook Reserves. Staff will refer heavily used titles to the Acquisitions Librarian for purchase of multiple copies.

The Library Director has final decision authority in placement of Library-owned materials on Textbook Reserve.

 

Mission College annually publishes a list of complete periodical holdings, including retention schedules for each title. Students, faculty, staff may borrow retrospective periodicals after completing a blue paging slip. Personal I.D. will be held until requested item(s) is/are returned. 

 

Pre-recorded telecourse tapes may be borrowed free by students currently enrolled in the related Mission College telecourse for in-Library use only (see Audiovisual Services chapter for further policies). Mission College Library staff coordinate telecourse accessions/withdrawals with the Mission College Telecommunications Department prior to the beginning of each semester.

 

This collection includes an assortment of often-older audio or visual instructional aids including filmstrips, 8 mm. Film reels, slide sets, kits, binders, and other instructional material integrated from the former Instructional Materials Center which existed prior to 2001.

 

Print guides may originally accompany videocassettes. Printed video guides are separated from their parent videocassettes, which are located in the open stacks. This is done for the purpose of controlled access to ensure instructor use of related guides when a faculty member requests a Media Reference item for off-site use. 

 

updated 03-20-09