Faculty Course Reserves Guide

Find the page where you can add and view your reserve requests in your Canvas site, https://canvas.dartmouth.edu/, using the left sidebar tab Library Reserves/Guides.

Empty reserve lists are automatically created and linked to your Canvas course. If there is not a reserve list corresponding to the course, please contact Baker.Reserve@dartmouth.edu.

To start adding content to the reserve list, create or add a section and then add citations. See the left navigation on this page for instructions.

Recommended: Save a copy of the list for yourself. Click the top ellipsis and select Print.

Copying over old Canvas course content to a new term Canvas page does not include Library Reserves materials or Panopto Video items.

To reuse a reserve list previously created in the Library Reserve system, please email Baker.Reserve@dartmouth.edu. Include the course code, term year of the previous list and the new term's course code. Example: ECON.010.01-FA22 to be copied to ECON.022.01-SP25.
The copy process may take a day or two; if it is a minimal number of items, it may be faster to add the content again to the new term list.

Dartmouth Libraries began using the current Library Reserve system for print and media items in different terms. We can only copy what has already been entered into the system after these terms:

• PRINT Summer 2022
• MEDIA Winter 2024

Sections help organize course materials. There must be a section to add materials.

Most course lists have a default section Library Research Guide(s) automatically populated with any library research guides related to the course subject. Rather than including materials in the default research guide section, add a new section.
Create as many sections as needed.

Add new section

1. Click the top left blue +Add button.
   1. Or click the New section button under the graphic and go to step 3.
2. From the drop down, choose New section.

      OR 

3. Choose a Section Name for your organizational needs (Resources, Required Readings, Week One, etc.)
4. Select First from the bottom dropdown to place the new section at the top of the list.
5. Click the top right blue Add button.

Content can now be added to the section by clicking the top left blue +Add button, New item.
Create as many sections as needed.

Move sections

Move sections into the preferred order.

1. Click Manage sections (to the right of the top left blue +Add button).
2. For the section to be moved, click the box to the left.
3. Click the up or down arrow in the toolbar to move the selected section.
4. When all sections are in order, click the top right X to exit the toolbar.

If content has been added to sections, it may help to select Compact view instead of Expanded view when moving sections.

Delete sections

1. Click Manage sections (to the right of the top left blue +Add button).
2. For the section to be deleted, click the box to the left.
3. Select Delete section in the toolbar.
4. Click the top right X to exit the toolbar.

• Add list editors in Canvas. If Administrative Assistants, Teaching Assistants or others will be helping to create reserve lists, please add them to the Canvas course. Use the roles of "Designer", "TA", or "Teacher" as appropriate. The Canvas authorization carries through to the Library Reserves system. It may take a few hours or a day for the authorization to update.
• View the people with permission to edit the reserve reading list once Canvas and the Library Reserve system have synced. Click on the List info at the top of reading list to see the Reading List Editors. This is a read-only pane.

If no loan length is specified, a 2-hour loan length is used for the physical item checkout time.

• Click the word bubble icon near the top of the far right vertical frame Notes to reserves staff  to specify a longer loan length of either 4-hour or 24-hour loan.

Subject areas and graduate courses are supported by a specific library's reserve processing department.

• Arts & Sciences and Media: Baker-Berry Library 
• Biomedical: Dana Library and Matthews-Fuller Library
• Business and Engineering: Feldberg Library

Students check out the physical materials at that location's Circulation Desk.
If physical reserve items need to be located at a different library circulation desk, please use the word bubble icon near the top of the far right vertical frame Notes to reserves staff to indicate where the physical items should be shelved for the term.