It's Time! Book and Electronic Reserves

Each semester you can place materials that you want to make available to
your students on reserve in the Engineering Library
These materials may include library books, your personal copies,
homework solutions, or other hand-outs. We will also attempt to
buy titles for reserve if we do not already own them.

Please let us know IMMEDIATELY about any books that we may need to
buy for your course.

Engineering can now assist with Electronic Reserves , a possible
alternative to Course Packets.

Want to give your students more of a choice? Let them decide what to
buy, print or read online?

For many materials that comprise a “course packet”
the Engineering Library staff can supply faculty with a persistent link
to that article or a scanned version. These links can be listed in the
traditional Library “eReserve” system.

Students can then click on these links and read them online or print the
materials and have the costs deducted from the University print
allocation. It’s their choice.

We are not suggesting this as necessarily a substitute for course
packets, but rather offering faculty another option in support of their
teaching.

Benefits include:

• Copyright clearance is assured and instantaneous since materials are already part of the Engineering Library/University Libraries’ virtual collection
• Instant access at the click of a link
• Student chose what to print at their expense or read online
• Save trees
• Less weight to carry in their backpacks – how much DOES a “link” weigh?

Note: the "materials" most easily linked or scanned are journal
articles or papers that the Libraries subscribe to. The Engineering
Library can use the "eReserves" system to make a variety of other
materials available to your students as well.

Please notify any of your teaching assistants who may wish to put
material on reserve about this request also.

You may send us your reserve requests three ways:
1. Our online form for books, please specify location as Engineering Library
2. email the Engineering Library at engrlib.1@nd.edu
3. fax the list to 574-631-9208;
4. or bring your list to any staff member in the Engineering Library.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.

Thank you.
Tracey Morton
Engineering Library