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BOOKS

Your Centre College ID is your Library card. Present it at the Circulation Desk when you wish to check out bar coded materials.

Check out books for a period of 180 days.

Books may be renewed for an additional 180 days via email (crystal.ellis@centre.edu), telephone (ext. 5277), or accessing your library account from https://library.centre.edu.

Faculty members who will be away from Centre for any significant period of time are asked to return checked out books as a courtesy to other members of the Centre community.

PERIODICALS

Check out bound or unbound periodicals for 7 days. They may be renewed, if necessary, for an additional 7 days.

CDs

Check out for 7 days. May renew, if necessary, for 7 days.

Note: If CDs are checked out for classroom use, longer loan periods may be arranged with Crystal Ellis.

DVDs

Can check out for 3 days with no renewal.

Note: If DVDs are checked out for classroom use, longer loan periods may be arranged with Crystal Ellis.

FINES

The library does not charge overdue fines to faculty members, with the exceptions of Interlibrary Loan fees or book replacement costs. Interlibrary Loan fines are $1 a day.

COURSE RESERVES

The reserve system at the library allows students access to supplemental materials for your students. There are two types of reserves at the Centre College Library: Hard Copy Reserve and Electronic Reserves (e-reserves). Library books, DVDs, CDs, old exams, journal articles, and books or materials from the professor's personal collection may be placed on reserve. E-reserves are scanned copies of journal articles or book chapters that are viewable through Moodle. Please use the following guidelines when placing material on reserve.

BUDGET LIMITS

The Library will impose a maximum limit of $400/class for course reserve copyright permissions.

The Library will impose an upper limit of $150 per item for copyright permissions. If permission is required, but would cost more than $150, the Library will not place the material on reserve. Fair Use

Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106, the fair use of a copyright work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phono-records or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include-----

• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
• The nature of the copyrighted work;
• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
• The effect of the use upon the potential market value for the copyrighted work.

ELECTRONIC RESERVES

Guidelines for E-reserves:

E-reserves are electronic copies of small sections of books or single journal articles. These are accessed through Moodle and are password protected, so only students in your class may view the material. The Center for Teaching and Learning periodically offers classes on Moodle for professors who wish to maintain a course or put up e-reserves by themselves, but the library will manage this for you.

So that required permission may be obtained, an E-reserve request form must be turned in 3 weeks prior to any item being reused a 2nd term. If the cost to place the material on reserve exceeds the $150 limit, the material will not be placed on reserve. Materials being used for the 1st time must be turned in 3 days prior to planned use.

When selecting material for e-reserve, please follow the 10% rule and the fair use guidelines listed on the Copyright Information page.

If you are selecting journal articles, we will check to see if they are available electronically in one of the library databases or electronic journals. Most articles can be linked to the Moodle page for easy access, which prevents the need for scanning and adheres easily to copyright recommendations. If an article is available electronically, please note that on the E-reserve request form. (In cases where a professor submits a paper copy of an article for reserve when an electronic copy exists, the electronic copy will be used instead, and a link to the article will be made available via Moodle).

The total amount of material included in electronic reserves for a specific course should be a small proportion of the total assigned reading for the course. E-reserves are not a substitute for textbooks and may not be used for course packs. If a course pack is desired, Anastasia Knight at the bookstore will offer assistance and students will be required to purchase the assembled course pack through the bookstore. As a best practice guideline, reserve materials should be used primarily for supplemental readings and not core course readings.

Library staff reserve the right to determine if materials will be placed on course reserve, make the final determination if copyright permission is necessary, limit the number of course reserves for a given course based on copyright constraints, royalty costs, etc., and to remove or prohibit use of material for e-reserve without notification if it is determined that the use violates copyright law.

In all cases, a lawfully obtained copy will be used as the basis for an electronic reserve item. If a needed material is not already a part of the library collection, the Library will purchase a copy.

Electronic form to request e-reserves. Please fill out the entire form.

PRINT AND AUDIO/VISUAL RESERVES

Guidelines for putting print and audio/visual materials (books, photocopies, DVDs, and CDs) on reserve:

Bring the material for reserve, or a list of items to be placed on reserve that includes call numbers and titles, to the Circulation Desk. Please allow at least two business days before the material is needed in class.

If you give the request to a student worker, please make sure they take note of your name, course name, and course number.

Please give the students in your courses exact references when referring to your reserve material

Please notify library staff before removing personal copies or library copies from the reserve shelves.

In all cases, a lawfully obtained copy will be used as the basis for an electronic reserve item. If a needed material is not already a part of the library collection, the Library will purchase a copy.

** *Interlibrary Loan materials CANNOT be placed on reserve.

Electronic form to request print and Audio/visual reserves form Please fill out the entire form.

Additional Guidelines for CDs and DVDs:

CDs and DVDs can be put on reserve. (CDs are located in the basement storage room),  

Please contact the Center for Teaching and Learning to schedule a class viewing.

DVDs can be viewed by individuals and small groups in the library; please refer students to library staff. Students will have 4 hours to view a movie after it is checked out.

DATABASES (Click to view all databases.)

The Library subscribes to over one hundred databases in a wide variety of disciplines. An alphabetical list of these databases can be found on the Library home page under FIND / ALL DATABASES. For a list of databases by subject, select DIV I-Humanities, DIV II-Social Studies, or DIV III-Science & Math on the Databases A-Z page. If accessing the Centre databases off campus, make sure to select the database title from the Library home page so that the database can validate you as a Centre subscriber. You will be asked for your Centre username and password to confirm that you are a member of the Centre community.

JOURNALS (Click to search all journal titles.)

Journals are available online through our databases, with several historic issues of some journals available in print. To find journals, go to the Library home page and select FIND / ALL JOURNALS. Type in the title of the journal, and the results will indicate whether Centre has access to the full text of the journal. If we have access, the dates of access will be listed, as well as whether the journal is available in print or online.  

E-BOOKS (Click to explore eBook collections.)

The Library provides access to hundreds of thousands of electronic books. These are included in the Library online catalog and include a link to access the title. Reference books, scholarly and professional works, published by commercial and university presses, are all included.  The Centre community may use these books on or off campus. Contact a Reference Librarian for help accessing electronic books from the collection.

STREAMING VIDEOS (Click for info about streaming videos)

Grace Doherty Library maintains a collection of audiovisual content used primarily in support of the curriculum. Requests for streaming videos in fulfillment of our mission to support courses of study while complying with copyright law and fair use guidelines are welcome. All faculty requests for audiovisual content in support of teaching are honored whenever possible. Please send all inquiries to Jazmine Wilson.

Schedule an appointment or classroom instruction with a reference or instruction librarian.

The Centre College Special Collections, located in the Grace Doherty Library, includes a collection of rare books and the College Archives. Dating from 1818 to the present, the Archives primarily concerns the history of Centre College and includes material such as manuscripts, photographs, publications, yearbooks, annual catalogs, audio and video recordings, and more. The rare book collection, while small, includes examples of fine printing, nineteenth century natural history books, books printed in France in the 1500s, Kentucky history, and Presbyterianism.

The Archivist welcomes the opportunity to work with you to incorporate our Special Collections & Archives into your classroom, or to partner with you and your students on other projects utilizing primary source materials. Please contact Beth Morgan at beth.morgan@centre.edu to schedule a time to discuss how we can work together to further enhance your students' research skills or to schedule a tour of the Thomas A. Spragens Rare Book Room & Archives.

For more information on our collections, to view our digital archives, and to discover Centre's history, please visit our web page.

How to request an ILL

Digital Humanities/Online Projects

The library is happy to help with any digital projects. We can assist with oral history projects and digital tools such as TimelineJS, Omeka, Wordpress, Canva, Voyant and others. This includes holding informational "how to" sessions with students, as well as long term support for online and ongoing projects.  

Projects from the 2020/2021 academic year:

A History of Gender at Centre College

Lived Histories: Urban Renewal in Danville  

Piercing Centre’s Spectral Bubble: What Truly Haunts Centre College  

When Women Speak

The Centre College Institutional Repository Collection

The Centre College Institutional Repository Collection or CCIRC is the permanent repository for scholarship related to Centre College faculty, staff, and students. An open access platform for scholarship, it contains works deposited by faculty, staff, and students; issues of the school paper, The Cento; and our oral history collection. 

You are invited to deposit your work in the institutional repository. Not only will it be available online, it will also be backed up on a local server and in the library's offsite digital cold storage, ensuring preservation and access of the work for decades to come.

Would you like to recommend a book purchase?

Please watch the following videos on how to find book recommendations using Choice Reviews and how to request a book purchase using BookIt. For more information about book request policies, see the Acquisitions Policy page.

How to use Choice Reviews

How to use BookIt to request a book purchase: