The Short Loan Collection includes items (books, videos, DVDs, etc.) which are in high demand. These items can be borrowed for either 3 hours or 7 days.

When we receive your Unit Outline, we purchase and/or move items on your reading list to the Short Loan Collection. Your cooperation in ensuring this information reaches the Library early in the semester will ensure the resources are available for your students.

Unit outlines and any supplementary requests should be emailed to readinglists@canberra.edu.au. Alternatively complete a form at the Library Information and Loans Desk. 

Please include the following information:

• Unit name
• Number of students
• Title/s of the items you wish to move into the Short Loan Collection
• Whether the items are to be borrowed for 3 hours or 7 days

These items are kept in the Short Loan Collection until the end of 2nd semester.

Reading List Checklist

The following questions are intended to help your students save time when using the Library:

• do you expect your students to buy one or more course texts and is this indicated on the Unit Resources list (and are these books in print and available in the COOP bookshop)
• is there a clear distinction between essential texts and background reading
• have you indicated which books have been placed in the Short Loan Collection and which articles/book chapters are available on E-Reserve
• are all the titles on the Unit Resources list available in the Library
• if students are expected to use other libraries for items not available at UC, is this indicated on the list
• if you are aware that a title is out of print, have you indicated this on the reading list (so that Library staff or students do not try to purchase copies)

For more detailed information, contact readinglists@canberra.edu.au.

Reading Bricks & Private Copies

Reading Bricks

• If you would like to make a copy of a Reading Brick available for use in the Library, you can supply a copy and we will make it available in the Short Loan Area

Private Copies

• If the Library does not hold a copy of an item your students need and we are unable to buy it, you can provide your private copy and we will make it available for use in the Short Loan Area
• Alternatively, if we have made a reasonable but unsuccessful attempt to buy an item, we can borrow the item from another library, photocopy and bind it, and add it to our collection

Reading Bricks or Private Copy material provided by you will be returned at the end of each semester, or earlier if the Library has been able to purchase a copy for the collection.

You can bring the Reading Brick/Private Copy to the Library Information and Loans Desk where we will ask you to complete a Reading Brick/Private Copy Request form.

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