The Baker-Berry Library offers a unique Project Room as part of our course reserve service. Located on the northeast side of the Reserve Corridor, the room provides the following features for students working with materials placed on course reserve:

• Open Reserve Shelving – Students can browse all reserve material placed on a course, including runs of journals.
• Scanners (2) with Adobe Photoshop, Acrobat and Designer - Work directly with reserve material to integrate images and text into assignments.
• Copier Room - Provides a secure copying environment within the room for non-circulating materials.

Making Materials Available Using the Project Room

Submit a course reserve reading list form and indicate that the material should be housed in the Project Room. Material can be designated as non-circulating or given a 2, 4, or 24 hour loan. All material placed on reserve for a course (print, media, or online) will be integrated into a single course reserve list.

Examples of Project Room Uses

• Students in Art History consult all material placed on course reserve using the Project Room’s open shelving. Students may use the multi-media carrels to view paintings in the Artemisia application in tandem with the written text.
• Students in Religion classes researched original source texts in order to produce a reader of excerpts from the writings of both classical and contemporary scientists, addressing the issue of the relation of science and religion. Open shelving in the Project Room provided the works of scientists ranging from Galileo and Copernicus to Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
• Students in Classics, as part of an introductory archaeology course, researched ancient Roman coins. The students followed the coins’ history through multi-volume sets of Roman Imperial Coinage and Coins of the Roman Empire, usually housed at the Storage Library.
• Students in Film Studies consulted sources on the open shelves to examine course material relating to the history of the Hollywood studio system, researching the context of film and social histories of 20th century American culture.