Review: Week 1: Reserves

Hello!

This is week 1 of our reviewing! Please read the following and answer the questions below. Remember I require that all Student Assistants, ASCs and SCs participate!

When a patron comes up and asks for a reserve, the first step is to ask them what class or professor they have. Go to the library website, click on the tab that says "Books, Movies, and More," and click the link that says "Reserves for Classes." In that screen select the search items they give you and click "Find." That will pull up the list of reserves that patron should be interested in.

There are two types of reserves. Faculty owned items, which are the faculty's personal items that they have put on reserve for their students to use. Oesterle library items, which are items the library owns. The faculty owned items have very basic call numbers like f789 (book), v506 (video), c102 (CD), p102-A1 (Photocopies), etc. They have a purple band with the barcode on the band. All of these items are located on the right side of the reserve bookshelf, except for the photocopies which are located in the bins to the left of the bookcase.

The Oesterle library items have our normal Dewey Decimal call numbers, a green band, and the barcode is located where all of our barcodes are, on the back cover, top right hand side. All of these items are located on the left side of the reserve bookshelf.

There are 6 possible different check out times: 2, 3, 4 hours and 1, 2, 3 days. When you charge the item out to the patron the computer will tell you the exact time the item is due, make sure you tell the patron. If you missed the due time on the computer screen, you can just look at the band on the book and with that information figure out the due time. Hourly reserves should NEVER EVER leave the building, that means they can not be desensitized. Daily reserve should be desensitized, so please pay attention to the difference.

Once a reserve item is returned you need to discharge it right away in order to not accidentally give a patron a fine. If it is an hourly reserve you should put it on the reserve shelf, it should never go in the back room. If it is a daily reserve, you should resensitize it in the back and then put it on the reserve shelf. There should NEVER be a reserve book on a shelving cart or on the regular shelves, only on the reserve bookcase.