Electronic Reserves Service Survey
Engineering Faculty:
The Engineering Library would like to assess your interest in using our Electronic Reserves service (eReserves) as an alternative to traditional printed Course Packets to provide your students with journal articles or book chapters you feel are important teaching materials.
Our thinking includes the fact that course content is becoming less traditional in format and much more interdisciplinary, especially in the sciences and engineering. It may even be difficult for you to identify a textbook that covers all the important ideas that you want to impart to students via teaching materials for a course.
Students have expressed their dissatisfaction with paying Course Packet copyright fees. If you would elect to use the library's eReserves service, there is no cost to the student. The library arranges for copyright clearance and pays the copyright fees but it really is a totally different financial model. Thus we feel it is an opportune time for professors to consider using eReserves in place of Course Packets.
Briefly, eReserves is a password protected online service that allows students to access articles or book chapters any time via the internet. Access is controlled so that only currently enrolled students can use the classroom materials you have chosen so that copyright infringement does not occur. For more information about eReserves see:
http://www.library.nd.edu/reserves/ElectronicReserves.shtml
Just as an FYI, we will continue keeping Books on Reserve in the Engineering Library which students can check out for short time periods for your classes; that will not change.
At this point in time we need to estimate demand for eReserves in order to plan for costs and preparation time. If you would kindly answer the questions in this short survey, we will appreciate it very much!
Thanks so much for your participation in this survey! Please respond as soon as possible or by November 23rd.
Carol Brach
Here is the link to the survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227385V68HX
