The Reserve Collections

GENERAL INFORMATION
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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Reserve Room

The Reserve Room is located on the lower floor, in the south wing of the library. Materials kept behind the desk in the Reserve Room include books owned by the library and books, readings and other materials owned by individual professors. These materials typically consist of required readings assigned by faculty to their classes and some books and other materials that are in high demand.

Borrowing Reserve materials

Reserve materials may be checked out to patrons with a currently validated John Jay College or CUNY ID card with a library barcode.

Library-owned books must be requested by call number. To identify the call number for a particular book, search CUNY+.

Photocopies, books, and other materials owned by individual professors are stored in boxes arranged alphabetically by the name of the professor. These materials must be requested by professor’s name. Materials owned by a professor are normally available only to students taking that professor’s class.

Loan periods

Loan periods for reserve items are generally 3 hours. A very few items may have been given a longer loan period, of 1 day, 3 days or 7 days. Reserve items may not be renewed. The overdue fine for Reserve material is $1.20 per hour for 3-hour loan items, and $1.00 per day for 1-day, 3-day and 7 day items. Fines accumulate up to the replacement cost of the material.

Our Electronic Reserve system gives students access to course readings from any computer connected to the World Wide Web. Materials on electronic reserve typically include past exam papers, student papers, book chapters, and journal and magazine articles.

Note: Access to course readings is restricted to students registered for that class. Not all classes have course materials on Electronic Reserve, and not all class readings are on Electronic Reserve. Class textbooks, for example, are not available on electronic reserve, but must be purchased by the student.

To access materials on Electronic Reserve:

• Go to the library home page at http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu
• Click on Electronic Reserve, on left hand side of screen.
• Click on "CLASS READINGS AND OTHER COURSE MATERIALS ON Electronic Reserve"
• Choose the professor's name from the list of instructors, and click on GO.
• Click on the class number or title.
• Enter the password in lowercase letters (given to students by their professor).
• You should now see the list of readings.

Some readings will bring you to an article in a library database, or to a website. Some readings will be in Adobe Acrobat file format (pdf file). To open pdf files, you must have pdf reader software installed on your computer. Adobe Acrobat reader software can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.