Due to the pandemic, the Business Library encourages electronic reserves.  Contact a librarian to see if the Business Library can purchase an e-book, which you can then link to your course page.  Library staff will also scan chapters from books already in UI Libraries collections—or from personal copies—for upload to ICON.

To learn more about reserves, read Services and Polices (next section).

E-mail or print out the following information.  If you are placing a personal copy on reserve—or wish to have chapters from a personal copy scanned—you should bring the material to the Business Library service desk.

Place a Book on Reserve

• Instructor
• E-mail address
• Course Number
• Course Name
• Semester
• Loan period: 2 hours (default), 1 day, 3 days
• Book title
• Book author
• Call number (if available)

Request a Scan of Book Pages/Chapters

Library staff will e-mail you pdf. document(s) to place on your ICON page.

• Instructor
• E-mail address
• Course Number
• Course Name
• Book title
• Book author
• Call number (if available)
• Chapters or pages to be scanned*

*Copyright may limit the amount that can be scanned at one time.  Library staff will inform you of any problems.

The Business Library:

• Places UI Library books on reserve.
• Places personal copies on reserve.
• Scans book chapters for upload to ICON.
• Acquires some texts automatically through the Textbook Affordability Program.
• May purchase e-books for a course.*

*Contact a librarian.

Reserve Policies

• The standard loan period is 2 hours, although 1-day and 3-day loans are available.
• Since some courses use the same material over multiple semesters, items are left on reserve for at least a full year.
• Personal items may be damaged by heavy use, are stolen occasionally, or may not be returned by a borrower. The Libraries cannot replace missing or damaged personal material.

It is the instructor's responsibility to find out if materials fall within the "fair use" definition for teaching:

• Fair Use
• Copyright

Thousands of full-text articles are available to you and your students:

1. Find journal articles through InfoHawk+ or use these business databases.
2. Copy the article's persistent link.
3. Place the persistent link in ICON.

Note: the Harvard Business Review imposes numerous restrictions on linking to its articles.  Contact a librarian for options.

The UI Libraries provide access to streaming videos you can use in your course:

• Swank Digital Campus (Streaming video titles licensed from Swank. List is updated frequently.)
• Search all titles available in Swank.
• Licensed databases for streaming video services.