Instruction Sessions
Gould Library librarians customize their instruction to the College curriculum. Our goal is to advance the learning goals of your class. We partner with you to create information literacy instruction for individual classes, departments, and students. Librarians can also partner with each other. We offer combined teaching in research practices, Archives, Special Collections, government documents, disciplinary practices, and more. Learn more about instruction through the links below and schedule a session.
Placing Material on Reserve
Course Reserves makes course materials easy for students to access at no cost. Reserve items can include books, DVDs, and other physical library materials.
Materials placed on reserve are available at the library circulation desk with short loan periods (2 hours or 2 days for books, and 4 hours for DVDs). These loan periods help ensure all students have fair access throughout the course.
Many reserve items are already in the library’s collection. If the library does not own materials need for your course, we will purchase them.
To place library materials on reserve, you should complete a Course Reserves Request Form. There are two ways to access this form:
- Directly access the Course Reserves Request Form, completing all information requested on the form.
- Access the Reserves Request Form via Catalyst. After signing in, open the item record and select Place on Course Reserves for your students in the Request Options box. The request form will open with some of the item’s bibliographic information pre-populated.
When both print and electronic versions of a resource are available, we’ll link to the electronic version by default rather than place the print copy on reserve. If you’d also like the print copy on reserve, just let us know—we’re happy to make both versions available.
You may place your personal books and DVDs on reserve. Simply bring them to the Circulation Desk, where you’ll be asked to provide your name, course name and number, and the desired reserve loan period.
Add articles, book chapters, and other digital resources directly to your Moodle course. Whenever possible, link to materials available through the library’s databases so students can access them easily. Please see our guide on creating stable links to library resources for best practices. Items that are not available electronically through the library may be scanned and uploaded as long as you adhere to the copyright guidelines as outlined in the Faculty Handbook.
Please Plan Ahead
Reserve items are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Reserves are not processed on weekends.
If you have questions
Brenda Hellen is the Reserves Specialist. If you have questions related to placing materials on reserve, please e-mail or call 507-222-4257.
What may and may not be placed on reserve
Items that may be placed on reserve include most physical materials owned by Carleton or St. Olaf Libraries. E-resources available at Carleton, including e-books and streaming videos, may also be placed “on Reserve” via links associated with a given course in Catalyst. Personal copies of books and DVDs can be placed on reserve.
We do not place the following categories of items on reserve:
- Rented or copied DVDs
- Interlibrary Loan materials
- Special Collections materials
Adding Library Resources to Moodle
The library provides many online resources which you may want to link to from your Moodle course page as course resources. If you have any questions or problems with these resources, or if you would like to include resources not mentioned on this sheet, please feel free to contact your library liaison. They will be happy to help you get these links into Moodle.
For copyright reasons, it’s best to link to existing full text rather than upload readings to Moodle. Here is how to get good links into Moodle so that your students get direct access to full text readings.
For more information, please see the libguide, “Adding Library Resources to Moodle“.
Find a stable URL
When using library search tools, most of the URLs that you will see in your address bar are dynamic, working once and then not necessarily working again. In order to find a link that will be sure to work for your students, look for “Stable URLs” or “Permalinks.” Sometimes these are also held in the suggested citation generated by the research database.
Here are some places to look for stable URLs in typical databases.
Proxy Authorization Form
Carleton College faculty and staff are allowed to designate chosen individuals to act as proxy representatives when checking out materials. Proxy representatives will not use a dedicated proxy card; instead, proxy representatives will only need their personal OneCards in order to check materials out on behalf of designated faculty and staff. Checked out items will be on the faculty or staff person’s own library account. The faculty/staff member is responsible for the return of borrowed materials and/or replacement costs for damaged or billed material.
Please use the form below to indicate which faculty and staff need proxy representatives and which individuals are authorized to serve as the representatives. At the bottom of the form you can also indicate any changes that need to be made to your current proxy arrangements.