LibGuides: Textbooks and Other Course Materials: Course Reserves

For Students

Some textbooks are on Course Reserve. Course Reserve materials are typically available for in-library checkout only.

If you would like to see if your class text is available in the library, you can look up Course Reserves using the link below.

Some limited items may be available digitally-- if your Course Reserve text is available online, it will be inside your online course shell (typically in Canvas)-- please contact your instructor to see if this applies to your class.

Find Course Reserves

Using Course Reserves

Instructors sometimes put materials and textbooks for their classes on "Course Reserves" in the Holman Library for students to borrow. Usually, these items can be used only inside the library and only for short periods of time.

Locate items put on "reserve" by Green River instructors by searching in the library's catalog. You can search by item title or the number of the class (example: TS 101). If you don't find your course listed in our Course Reserves search, ask your instructor to put your textbook on reserve.

Green River College Library: Course Reserves Locate items put on "reserve" by Green River instructors (such as books and textbooks). You can search by item title or the class subject ('Chemistry').

Use the link above to open the catalog and then follow the instructions written below - also shown in the image below.

Select "Course Reserves" from the drop-down menu
Search ADVANCED COURSE RESERVES by any one of these options:

Department - such as: Communication Studies
Course Name - such as: Interpersonal Communications
Subject - such as: Persuasion
Instructor - such as: Kelsey Denton or Denton Kelsey
[any combo of last and first names]
Title - such as: The Essential Guide to Intercultural Communication
Course ID - such as: CMST 210 CMST& 210
(you can search either with or without the "&" )

After a search, you can also browse and filter by Department, Course Name, Course ID, Subject, Instructor
Go to the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the library to borrow course reserves

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Information for Faculty

If you, as a faculty member, would like to place a textbook on Course Reserve at the library, please use our Course Reserve request form (linked below).

Keep in mind that new Course Reserve requests may take 3-4 business days to process before being available to check out at the library.

Holman Library can assist instructors in scanning limited chapters of Course Reserve materials to pdf and send them to you so that the files can be uploaded to your Canvas page.

To place a request for scanning assistance, please contact the Holman Library Circulation Department by email (circdesk @ greenriver.edu).

Course Reserve Request Form
Use this online form to request items be placed on Reserve in the library for your class.
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For faculty only.

Other useful sources

Searching outside the Holman Library

Public libraries often have very different collections than academic libraries, but sometimes you might just find what you need! Use the links below to try searching the public library for your textbook.