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Electronic Reserves (ERes) is a service of the Phillips Library, which is designed to facilitate the retrieval of reserve readings, required by instructors of students in their classes. The ERes system is available by means of a link on the Phillips Library home page and offers access to class-specific web pages that contain a database of full-text reserve readings for that class in various formats: Adobe portable document format (.pdf), WordPerfect documents (.wpd), Microsoft Word documents (.doc), Excel spreadsheets (.xls), ASCII text (.txt), and HTML (.htm). Access to class web pages are password restricted, so that only those students who have been given the password by their instructor and who have agreed to the posted copyright restrictions are admitted to the class page. Once admitted, students are able to view and/or print any reserve readings posted by their instructor for their class. Classroom web pages on the ERes system also contain a link to the instructor’s email address, information about the instructor’s office hours and telephone numbers, a classroom bulletin board, to which both students and instructor may post notices for the class, and a chat room, so that students and instructor can meet online for questions and answers at times that are set by the instructor.
The creation and maintenance of the ERes web site is carried out by the Phillips Library Systems Librarian. The process of scanning photocopies of documents sent to the library by the instructors is directed by the library's Systems Librarian. Instructors should photocopy the documents they want posted and send them to the Systems Librarian with the following information: name of professor, name of course, number of course, semester for which the document is to be posted on ERes, full bibliographic citation of the document in the format preferred by the instructor, and an indication of when the document will be needed by students enrolled in the course. A template is posted on this website for the convenience of the faculty.
The ERes web site is designed to replace the collection of folders that had been maintained by the Circulation Department Reserve Desk, and to supplement the collection of books that are put on reserve each semester. Faculty members may photocopy portions of the books they place on regular reserve for posting to the ERes website as long as the limitations of United States Copyright law are observed. All faculty members should carefully read about Copyright Restrictions and Procedures for ERes.
ERes is offered to the Mount community as a convenient means of access to classroom reserves for students on or off campus with computers connected to the Internet by means of an ISP (Internet Service Provider).
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