Course Reading Materials - Open Sessions

In response to recent concerns surrounding course reading materials, the University Libraries in cooperation with the Kaneb Center is offering a series of short (30 min.) presentations covering our course reading materials services and how they can support your pedagogical goals while reducing costs for your students. We will demonstrate library services (such as electronic reserves, custom created pages of library resources, and direct links to electronic journal articles), how to take advantage of these services, and then how to integrate them into your course presentation methods such as Concourse, web pages, email, etc.

Some highlights of what will be covered:

1. Electronic Reserves - a service where the library digitizes and links to content we subscribe to based on faculty selected readings.
2. Online Resources - custom created web pages of resources relevant to your courses, direct links to online articles, etc.
3. Getting Your Students to the Materials - integrating our services in Concourse, email, or other methods you use for course material distribution.
4. How to Request Customized Services from the Libraries

Dates and times are as follows:

123 Nieuwland Hall
December 12, 2007 2pm

Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center
December 13, 2007 10am
December 17, 2007 4pm

131 Decio Hall
December 13, 2007 3pm

121 Mendoza College of Business
December 17, 2007 10am

210 Debartolo Hall
December 18, 2007 10am

Electronic reserves resolution passes

The Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday that encourages professors to increase their use of electronic reserves in place of course packets, which spiked in price this year.

The resolution, presented by Senate Academic Affairs chair Carol Hendrickson and Fisher senator Stephen Bant, "respectfully encourages" professors to use electronic reserves instead of course packets "when it seems in the best interests of their students based on the price and convenience of the materials."

A similar resolution was presented to the Senate on Oct. 31 but failed to pass. High course packet prices have been discussed in the Senate over the past several weeks. Hendrickson and Bant conducted an e-mail survey of students last month and found that the majority of those who answered were unhappy with the higher prices of course packets.

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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

Ordering Fall textbooks? The Engineering Library has course planning services.

We facilitate student access to high-demand items in book form or electronic formats.

Solve these problems using Reserve services at the Engineering Library.

• Eighty books were ordered, but only sixty have been received. What can you do until the bookstore receives the other twenty? Put a copy on reserve in the Engineering Library.

• There is a book with only one chapter appropriate for your class, but the cost of the book is $250.00. Do you ask your students to buy the book, or do you consider their finances and ignore this resource? A scanned copy of the chapter can be made electronically available.

• You announce in class the title of a book for additional reading. An eager student checks out the only library copy, while twenty other students vent their frustration. Inform Library staff first and the copy is placed on reserve with a two (2) hour circulation limit.

• You wish to use an article from a journal and the library has only one copy for multiple students. A scanned copy of the article is made available online, with copyright protections.

You may send us your reserve requests three ways:

1. Send email to engrlib.1@nd.edu

2. Use the on-line form (be sure to select "Engineering Library" from
the selection of libraries): https://www.library.nd.edu/reserves/forms/books.shtml

3. Bring your printed list to any staff member in the Engineering Library.

The sooner we are made aware your needs, the sooner we can collect or purchase the material necessary for your course. The beginning of the semester is the peak work period in the area of reserves. Try as we might our limited staff cannot process everything at once.

Course Reserves, Spring 2007

Each semester you (Faculty & Teaching Assistants) 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. Depending on the items availability, we can not guarentee material will be available at the beginning of the semester.

We would like to request that you send us your list of materials for the Spring Semester at the latest by FRIDAY, JANUARY 5th, so that we can begin collecting and processing them.

You may send us your reserve requests three ways:

* * Send email to engrlib.1@nd.edu

* * Use the on-line form (be sure to select "Engineering Library" from the selection of libraries):
https://www.library.nd.edu/reserves/forms/books.shtml

* * Simply send or bring your printed list to any staff member in the Engineering Library.

Thank you.
Engineering Library
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