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Course Reserves & Services
Doherty Library supports UST faculty and students by providing tools to place materials on course reserves to help alleviate textbook costs.
Doherty Library has a selection of textbooks and supplemental course materials on reserve. The faculty selects books and also provides copies of textbooks to be placed on reserve for classes. Textbooks on reserve are not intended to take the place of students purchasing textbooks for their courses. Due to budget limitations, we are unable to purchase textbooks for every course.
NOTE: Materials borrowed through Interlibrary Loan Service may not be placed on course reserve.
For Students
At the request of a professor or an administrator, Doherty Library will “reserve” particular items at the circulation desk.
Reserve items have short borrowing periods:
- 2 hours
- 4 hours
- 24 hours
- 3 days
- 7 days
This allows a large number of patrons to borrow a single item within a brief period of time. The borrowing periods are set by the faculty member that provides the course reserve.
Reserve items follow the same user policies as other library items. The only difference is that they have very short borrowing periods, and most reserves cannot leave the library.
For Faculty
Books from Doherty Library regular collection can be placed on Reserve if more than one of students needs to access the book. Faculty can choose the borrowing duration of the item for as short as two hours and as long as a week.
Steps to request items for course reserves:
- Faculty can put their personal copy of an article, book, or CD on reserve.
- Faculty must complete one reserve form for each item to be put on reserve.
- Faculty must personally retrieve items to be put on reserve from the library collection.
- Doherty Library does allow faculty student assistants to put items on reserve if they have all the information needed to complete the reserve form.
It may take up to 48 hours after faculty submit the reserve forms for the materials to show on their online reserve list.
Can’t find what you are looking for on our catalog or databases: Use Interlibrary Loan to get the item from another library.
Updated: July 15, 2026