Students: Accessing course materials through the libraries

What are course reserves?

Course reserves is a library service that provides a no-cost way to access course materials assigned by instructors.

Most print materials are available for in person checkout at College Library. In some cases your course materials may be on reserve at another library.
Most Reserves items have a loan period of 2 hours. A minority of Reserves items (like GRE test prep material) loans for 3 days.
Items should be returned to the library they were loaned at.
Reserves can not be renewed but may be checked out again after a 15 minute wait.
Reserves accrue late fines hourly.
Depending on the availability of materials at the UW Libraries and partner institutions, you may be able to request a title for a longer loan period. The libraries cannot guarantee your request will be filled.

Customized web pages for a course that make it easy to find the right library resources.

Reading Lists contain:

links to records for print books with information on where and how to access them
links to online access to eBooks

Reading Lists do not contain:

Media licensed through the libraries can be found by searching the library catalog, your instructor may also provide you with a link
Your instructor may assign movies or other content only available for streaming with a subscription or rental fee (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime). You may be able to access no-cost alternative through the libraries.
The libraries may have DVD or CD versions of media. Viewing stations and equipment to play analog media on your own device are available at no cost through the libraries