There are several questions to consider when evaluating whether or not your course will be best served by E-reserves:
- Do you have a large amount of items, which it will be cumbersome for students to copy?
- Is this course an on-line course (i.e. BlackBoard), which requires students to access a variety of electronic resources?
- Are many of your students unable to come to campus on a regular basis?
- Is this item a security risk? Do you fear damage or theft if a hard copy reserve is made available?
- Do you have the time to demonstrate how to use E-Reserves for your students? Are you willing to handle any access problems or questions concerning E-Reserves that your students may have?
- Are you able to get clean, clear copies of the items which you would like on E-Reserve?
- Will the benefits of having this item available on E-Reserve outweigh the additional training and technological requests?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, then you may want to consider E-reserves.
What can be placed on E-reserve?
- Please select photocopies that are as clean as possible. Copies should have minimal black space, smudges, minimal shading in diagrams, and clearly readable text.
- Scanning the paper will not improve poor copy quality. Poor quality copies also produce larger image files, which means you'll need more memory to print them.
- Original files are preferable to paper copies! - MS Word, MS PowerPoint and WordPerfect 8 and pdf files can be converted directly to image files for E-Reserves. If you are teaching at the Lake Shore campus you can submit these files on a disk or e-mail them as attachments to: adebat@luc.edu , if your classes are at the Water Tower Campus, send your files as attachments to pmallor@luc.edu
- Note that the same copyright restrictions will apply to E-reserves as to print reserves
- Full-text online articles available through the library's subscribed research databases may be placed on electronic reserve with no further copyright clearance process or fees. Please contact your reserves coordinator for more information or your subject specialist for help finding appropriate articles.
E-reserves can also link to specific website!. Simply provide the complete URL on the Electronic Reserve Materials List form.
Submitting E-reserves
To ensure prompt processing of Electronic reserve requests a completed Electronic Reserve Materials List form and Reserve items should be brought to the Cudahy Library for the Lake Shore Campus, or Lewis Library for the Water Tower Campus, or use the Online Form for Course Reserves. The following information is needed to complete the reserve form:
- Instructor
- Course Title
- Course Number
- Semester Year
- First Day of Class
- Date of removal
- Password (limited to 10 lowercase characters)
- Type of Material (Handout, Article, Chapter, website)
Faculty should take items requiring copyright clearance to the Copy Center at WTC or LSC before submitting them for reserves processing. Following the Electronic Reserves Guide is helpful.
Deadline for Submitting E-reserve Lists
Please submit items for E-reserve 6 weeks before the beginning of the semester. As the semester progresses, 2-3 weeks is sufficient lead-time to add articles to your existing E-Reserve list. If your materials require copyright clearance, please begin that process as early as possible, ideally 8 weeks before the beginning of the semester.
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