Content Repository

What are Electronic Reserves?

• Secure access to digital materials on your own course page.
• You will provide students with the course page password.
• We will remove pages from the system two weeks following the end of the semester.**

**If students completing the coursework will require access beyond two weeks past the end of the semester, please contact eres@yu.edu.

What are Physical Reserves?

• Hardcopy resources--owned by the library or professor-provided--kept at the library Reserve Desk at your campus.
• Your students will have access to these items, but it's limited so that all students have access.*

*Available for in-library use for 2-hours, or overnight if they make their request within ½ hour of Reserve Desk closing time.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Search the system by department abbreviation, course number/name, or instructor.
2. Enter the course E-reserves password your professor handed out. No password is needed if linked from the Canvas course page.
3. Locate the pdf files or links assigned by your professor.

Please note:

• Canvas no longer supports Internet Explorer 11, and it caused the authentication error with the library E-Reserves platform. Please use the latest version of one of the supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.
• Library Resources Off-Campus Access Guide and Guide to Using E-books.
• Fully Online Graduate Students, please check: E-Reserves Guide for Fully Online Students.
• Troubleshooting Browser Errors.
• Still Need help? Contact ereserves@yu.edu.

Link to the YULIS Library Catalog

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Go to "Reserves Search" in the YULIS Library Catalog (link above)
2. Search the system by department abbreviation, course number/name, instructor, or title of the book.
3. Write down the Call Number of the book.
4. Bring the Call Number and your YU One Card with you to retrieve the book.
   • Stern: Reserve Desk, North Wing
   • Pollack / Gottesman: Circulation Desk, 2nd floor
   • Gottesman non-course related reserves: Reference Desk, 5th floor

Reserve books have a 2-hour loan period for in-library use only.

Reserve Articles, etc. (Electronic)

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Go to E-Reserves (link above)

2. If you are off-campus or in the dorms, log in using the instructions below.

3. Search the system by department abbreviation, course number/name, or instructor.

4. Enter the course E-reserves password your professor handed out.

5. Locate the links or pdf files assigned by your professor.

Reserve Books, etc. (Print)

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Go to "Reserves Search" in the YULIS Library Catalog (link above)

2. Search the system by department abbreviation, course number/name, instructor, or title of the book.

3. Write down the Call Number of the book.

4. Bring the Call Number and your YU ID with you to retrieve the book:

• Stern: Reserve Desk, North Wing
• Pollack / Gottesman: Circulation Desk, 2nd floor
• Gottesman non-course related reserves: Reference Desk, 5th floor

Reserve books have a 2-hour loan period for in-library use only.

Overdue fines are 25 cents per hour per item.