Reserve materials are located behind the Circulation Desk. Most reserve materials circulate within the Law Library for four hours at a time. Most four hour reserve materials may be checked-out overnight two hours prior to closing and must be returned one hour after opening the next day.

The Reserve Area consists of the following four sections:

General Reserve
General Reserve contains the most current hornbooks, some general research aids, Iowa practice books, Co-curricular Reserve (see below), and current Iowa legislative materials.

Course Reserve
Materials requested for reserve by faculty members for specific classes are kept on Course Reserve.  Items on Course Reserve may include Law Library materials, materials from other campus libraries, photocopied materials, or personal copies.  In addition, items in electronic form may be placed on Electronic Reserve and added to same Course Reserve portion of the InfoHawk catalog.  Course Reserve allows a user to know what is placed on reserve by the faculty member, and to access electronic content remotely.  To place items on Course Reserve, notify the Circulation staff.  The InfoHawk Catalog has a link to Course Reserves near the top.  One may search by course name or professor.

Items are generally kept on reserve only for the semester that the course is being taught.  At the end of each semester, personal copies are returned to the faculty member and library materials are reshelved in the collection or returned to the appropriate library.  If a faculty member wishes to keep an item on course reserve for the next semester, she/he must notify Sandra French (sandra-french@uiowa.edu).  If a faculty member wants a list of the items on reserve for a particular course for the next time she/he teaches the course, contact Sandra French (sandra-french@uiowa.edu), who will print out a list and make sure it is delivered to the faculty member. 

Co-curricular Reserve
These are materials placed on General Reserve by entities such as legal clinic and moot court, and by student organizations. Some of these materials are placed on reserve for a semester, and some stay on reserve for a longer period of time. These materials are not included in the “course reserve” portion of InfoHawk, but are otherwise accessible via the InfoHawk catalog.

Exam Reserve
Past law school exams may be placed on reserve by law professors. Generally three copies of exams are placed on reserve. Exams on reserve are listed in the InfoHawk Course Reserve list via course or professor.

If you have any questions about Reserves, please contact Sandra French (sandra-french@uiowa.edu).