What if the title isn in Butler?
The Reserves Department will make every effort to make sure it can place the requested books on Reserve. If you have looked in CLIO and/or the Card Catalogue for the book and not found it, does that mean you shouldn’t place it on Reserve? Not necessarily! If the book is in another library, such as Barnard, Lehman, or East Asian, the Reserves Department will ask the owning library for the loan of that book. (This does not apply to Avery books, because that is a non-circulating collection.) If we cannot locate the book in the Columbia University Libraries, we will try to purchase the book. If it is not in print, the Acquisitions Department will try to find the book through a host of online secondhand-book dealers. If that avenue proves fruitless, we will contact the faculty member and let them know the book will be unavailable for Reserves.
