Processing time for ERes is also greatly reduced, since it eliminates the need to make duplicate copies, set up folders, labels, barcodes and item records for each document. Thus, reserve documents can be ready for student use more quickly. Faculty can fax documents to ERes, then retrieve the files, assign title information and add the files to their course records any time day or night. ERes accepts files in any format, such as word processor, spreadsheet, and Power Point. It accepts anything that can be scanned and faxed such as handwritten notes and photographs.
Faculty can also manage their own course pages.
They can restrict access to their course pages and to specific documents by creating a password which they give to their classes. They can add, delete, modify, or replace non-copyrighted documents as desired. They can archive documents that are not being used during the current semester and restore them the following semester. They can create a reference to hard copy reserves, link to a document from another ERes course page, and add a link to another web site such as an article contained in an electronic journal. Faculty can also put their materials on reserve in our print collection.