Research Guides: How to Find a Book: How to Find a Textbook on Reserve

What Are Reserve Textbooks?

Reserves are textbooks and/or course-related materials made available to students in the MATC library.
They are located at the front desk at each campus library.
You can check out Reserve items with your Student ID.
Check out periods vary, but most items are Library Use Only, so you can use them in the Library, photocopy pages using your Student ID, or take pictures of pages with your phone.
Reserve items can't be put on hold or requested to send to another campus library.
If your instructor does NOT have a textbook on reserve, you can ask them if they can get an extra copy to put on reserve in the Library, or let us know and we can contact your instructor.

The easiest way is to search by the textbook's title (not the course name), so that you see not only textbooks on reserve, but other copies that are available.
You CAN search by ISBN, however, your search results would not include a book that is a different edition.
You can also search by the course number, but make sure to include the dash, with no spaces. Example: ENG-201
You can print out a textbook list (or pull it up on your phone) from the Bookstore website
Required textbooks are also listed on the class syllabus on Blackboard

As with any book search, begin by going to the library homepage at book.matc.edu.
Type in the title of the book in the One Search search box and click on Find It!

The Location will tell you where a book is located.
So for this example, this book is located at the Mequon (NORTH) Campus, but it is currently checked out, and you can see when it is due.
There is another copy at the West Allis (WEST) campus on Reserve. By looking at the Call No., you can see that it is available to use in the Library. Example: RS Room Use_West Library_Rules for writers
Click the box in the left sidebar to limit your results, if you want to see ONLY the books that are on Reserve