Information for Faculty
Instructors of UMass Amherst courses can put a wide variety of material on physical or digital reserve.
Information about UMass Libraries’ digital course materials: this can include scanned book chapters and journal articles, links to electronic databases and eBooks, and links to full length or excerpted audiovisual material
- Available to students directly from your LMS course page 24 hours a day
- Free for students to use
We can help you provide access to UMass Amherst Libraries’ digital course material directly to your Moodle or Blackboard page:
Information about UMass Libraries’ physical course materials: this can include library owned books, journals and scores., instructor supplied copies of textbooks and class notes, as well as library owned and instructor supplied audiovisual materials.
If you have further questions, please contact reserves@library.umass.edu.
Information for Students
There is a wide variety of material on physical or digital reserve for UMass Amherst courses. You can search for physical reserves for in person loans in Discovery and check the materials out from the Learning Commons desk on the lower level of the Du Bois Library.
Reserve materials can be borrowed for 4 hours at a time.
You can find online course materials requested by your instructor for your class through your course’s Blackboard and/or Moodle page.
Please contact Reserves staff with any questions.
