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Library Contacts

Library Reserve (Jesse Thomas, 885-6495)

The University of Idaho Library supports instruction with course reserves and other collection access services. The primary function of these services is to assure that students and teachers will have timely access to course-related library resources.

Licensed Electronic Resources (Jodi Haire, 885-2531)

Interlibrary Loan (Hannah Etherton, 885-6843)

Borrowing Policies

Special Collections

Law Library Contacts

Law Library (Michael Greenlee, Head of Public Services, 885-2161)

Law Library Reserve (Carolyn Todd, 885-2157)

Law Interlibrary Loan (Jane Lear, 885-2159)

Other University of Idaho Contacts

Coursepacks [UI Bookstore] (Patty Carscallen, 885-2517)

Web-CT/Blackboard [Center for Teaching Innovation] (David Schlater, 885-2121)

Licensed Electronic Resources

Contractual license agreements and copyright law govern the access, use, and reproduction of most of the UI Libraries' electronic databases. Users of library-licensed resources must comply with the terms of these agreements by a) limiting their uses to non-commercial, educational, or personal research purposes; and b) not facilitating unauthorized access by others outside of the University community.

For a more comprehensive list of policies regarding electronic database licenses at the University of Idaho Library, see their Conditions of Use and Licensing Restrictions for Electronic Resources.

Where library databases are concerned, these general rules apply:

YOU MAY:	YOU MAY NOT:
Print, download, or quote limited amounts of information (with proper attribution)	Engage in systematic downloading of licensed content (e.g. download all the articles from an online journal issue or all the chapters from an e-book)
Email an article to another current University faculty, student, or staff member (unless this practice is specifically forbidden by the license)	Email an article to a person who is not a current University faculty, student, or staff (unless this practice is specifically allowed by the license)
Create a link to a journal article on a publisher web site	Post a copy of an article to a University server (e.g. Blackboard, departmental web site)