Library
Guide for Placing Materials on Reserve
Interlibrary Loan
Library Instruction
Instructional Media Center
Instructional Equipment
Teleconferencing
Professional Development
Library 
Guide for Placing Instructors' Materials on Reserve
To place books or other materials on reserve in the Library:
Bring materials that you want placed on reserve to the circulation desk at the library. Examples of materials that can be placed on reserve include class textbooks, supplementary materials, and sample exams.
- Fill out reserve form indicating course title and number and preferred checkout period. Standard checkout periods are 4-hour (library use only), overnight, 3-day or one-week.
- Please indicate when you want the materials removed from the reserve collection and whether you want them returned to you, added to the library collection, or sold in the ongoing library book sale.
- Please allow 2 working days for staff to process reserve materials before you announce their availability to your class.
In order to monitor circulation and safeguard reserve materials, all materials placed in the reserve collection will receive a label indicating the instructor’s name, course title and number, a barcode placed on the cover, and a library ownership stamp on the head of the book.
For further information please contact Christine Bettencourt at x3012 or cbettencourt@napavalley.edu.
Interlibrary Loan
The Napa Valley College Library staff is able to locate and borrow books, journal articles, and documents from libraries across the United States.
For items you do not find listed in the SNAP catalog or in Supersearch, or for articles in periodicals that NVC does not own, fill out an INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUEST (ILL) card available at the library. NVC Library staff will search for these ILL items, almost always without cost to you.
SNAP and Supersearch libraries do not charge fees for loaning materials. If we have to go beyond our member libraries to find materials, our policy is to search for materials from libraries that loan without charge. If we cannot find a free lender, we will not search further unless we have your authorization to search libraries that charge fees, which we may have to pass on to you.
Be sure to make your ILL requests as early in the semester as possible. Allow 2-6 weeks for items to arrive. Please contact Christine Bettencourt x3012 or e-mail cbettencourt@napavalley.edu for further information.
Library Instruction
Instructors are encouraged to schedule library orientations for their classes. Library orientations are easy to arrange and extremely effective in reinforcing instructor’s class assignments. Sessions may include library tours, introduction to research methods, basic information retrieval skills, and effective web-based research. Library orientations are held in the Silent Zone to facilitate instruction on identifying, evaluating and citing print and non-print research materials. Instructors may request the librarian to distribute laptops to give students hands-on practice developing their skills.
For further information and scheduling please call 253-3014 or 253-3067.
Laptops are available in the Library. Laptop Policy.
Instructional Media Center
Located on the main floor of the 800 building, the Napa Valley College Media Center provides videotapes, DVDs, audiotapes, and other materials for individual or media-assisted instruction.
Phone 707-253-3016 or contact:
Tereasa Snowder x6071 or e-mail tsnowder@napavalley.edu or
Choolwe Kalulu x3017 or e-mail ckalulu@napavalley.edu
List of Diversity-Related Media Materials.pdf
Instructional Equipment
The Instructional Media Center has LCD projectors, laptop computers, document cameras, videotape players, and portable stereo systems available for classroom use. Please contact the Instructional Media Center to arrange for the scheduling and delivery of equipment.
Tereasa Snowder x6071 or tsnowder@napavalley.edu or
Choolwe Kalulu x3017 or e-mail ckalulu@napavalley.edu
Teleconferencing
Teleconferencing equipment in Room 1530 allows for the delivery of instruction to students at the Upper Valley campus via IP technology on the campus network. This technology allows for the instructor to interact with students both in the remote location and on site. For further information about technology please contact Tereasa Snowder x3016 or tsnowder@napavalley.edu or Choolwe Kalulu x3017 or e-mail ckalulu@napavalley.edu
Professional Development
Are you looking for teaching or professional development resources? 4faculty.org can provide resources, training materials, and ideas.
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