Two forms
A physical item — a textbook copy, a DVD, a lab manual — is a print reserve, borrowed for a couple of hours so it circulates through a whole class. A chapter or article the instructor cleared for the course is an electronic reserve, linked straight from the course site with no limit on who reads it when.
If something's missing
A reading that isn't there yet is usually still in copyright review; the library clears each electronic reserve for fair use before it posts, and will rush one an instructor flags as urgent.
In and around Porter Falls
Online and Extended Learning works out of the second level of Halvorsen Library and supports learners across Wesconsin who rarely come to Porter Falls in person.
The practical details
Print reserves: Checked out for 2 hours at a time at the Halvorsen Library desk, in-building use. Electronic reserves: Chapters and articles linked in the course's online space, no checkout. Set up by: The instructor, before the term; students just use them. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Online & Extended Learning (Halvorsen Library, Level 2). Call (715) 555–0128 or email online@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.