Faculty Services

Instructional Support

The Library offers orientation programs and will give classroom presentations upon request. Recent course research guides are available online.

Placing Materials on Course Reserve

Please e-mail your course reserve list to Circulation Supervisor Paul King at pking@berkeley.edu. Submit your course reserves requests to the library before or at the beginning of the semester to allow adequate time for processing, and be aware that some materials may need to be recalled before they can be processed and available. Please include title, author, and edition of the item.

In some cases, we may be able to purchase additional copies of titles.

Please DO NOT check out any titles from other libraries and bring them to us to put on reserve. We will ask you to return them. Our campus-wide library circulation system requires that we order those books through campus mail.

To Place Personal Books on Reserve

If you own a book that you’d like to put on reserve, please email Paul King at pking@berkeley.edu. We will need to put barcodes, sensor tape, and hold tags on all the books.

Reserve Limit

30 items per course

Size of Class

Because of our relatively small reading room and our limited hours, the IGS Library can only hold reserves for classes with 100 students or fewer. If your class is larger than this, we recommend putting titles on reserve at the Moffitt Library: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/services/for_users/reserves.html
We are happy to assist with this process. Please contact Paul King (pking@berkeley.edu) for information.

Electronic reserves

If you would like to make electronic course reserve materials available, you can place them on bSpace, an environment that enables instructors to create and store course-related materials online. bSpace is available to students 24-hours a day, seven days a week. For details, see this information page.