Reserve request procedures for -
Annenberg School for Communication, School of Arts & Sciences, School of Dental Medicine, School of Design, Graduate School of Education, School of Engineering, School of Nursing, and School of Social Policy & Practice.
School of Medicine faculty, please see Biotech Commons reserves.
School of Veterinary Medicine faculty, please see Veterinary Libraries reserves.
Wharton School faculty, please see Lippincott Library reserves.
You may request reserves services using any of the methods outlined below.
We will be able to provide you with faster service if you use Canvas, Franklin or PennText.
- Information about physical reserves will be available through Canvas course sites and the Penn Libraries course reserves catalog.
- All access to electronic reserves will be exclusively through Canvas.
If you have not yet requested a Canvas course site and would like to take advantage of the Penn Libraries’ Course Reserves service, please be sure to check the Course Reserves box when registering for your course site. If you have already registered your Canvas site, but did not check the course reserve box, please register your course here so that we may enable your Canvas site for electronic reserves.
Reserves through Canvas
Once the “Penn Libraries Course Reserves” tool has been installed in your Canvas course site:
- Log into your Canvas site and click on the “Penn Libraries Course Reserves” button in the left hand menu.
- Choose “Add Reserve Item” from the Instructor Course Tools menu.
- Select the format of the item that you’d like to have placed on physical or electronic reserve.
- Fill out form that will open up.
- Submit the request.
If you would like to re-use materials that you have placed on reserve in previous semesters:
- Log into your Canvas site and click on the “Penn Libraries Course Reserves” button in the left hand menu.
- Choose “Add Reserve Item” from the Instructor Course Tools menu.
- Click on the previous course in the displayed list.
- Check off any items that you’d like to re-use.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Import items’.
Reserves through Franklin, the Penn Libraries catalog
- Login to Franklin in the upper right hand corner. Find the record of the book, journal or film in Franklin
- Click on the Place on Course Reserve link for the item.
- A pre-populated form will open, with a default selected to pull the item from library holdings.
- Submit the request.
Reserves through PennText, the Penn Libraries article finder
- Login to Franklin in the upper right hand corner. Search Articles+ in our Franklin catalog to find the record for the journal article that you would like to request.
- Select the title from the resulting list.
- Click on the "Get It" menu option on the left hand side. You will see the option to "Place on Course Reserve." A new page will open, pre-populated with the citation information.
- Please make sure to select the course that you are adding the item to at the bottom of the page.
- Submit the request.
Reserves via email or in person
You may bring or email a list of materials desired to your reserve location.
If you would like us to post documents that you already have in electronic form please send us the file.
If you have physical materials that you would like us to scan for you, please bring them to your reserve location.
Regardless of format: please be sure to include your name, course name and number and complete citations with all communications.
Personal copies
If you would like to place personal copies of books or films on reserve you may use any of the methods listed to initiate the reserve process. We ask that you then bring the personal copy to your preferred reserve location.
We are always happy to accept desk copies of textbooks.
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If you have additional questions or concerns, please ask the Reserve Staff Contacts at your Library.