In 1996, Bertrand Library began offering electronic course reserves as an option for students and faculty. Students can view and print old exams, problem solutions, and some journal articles, as well as access course notes or weblinks or anything else that instructors feel would be helpful for their classes. Among many other advantages, this system will prevent individual pages from being stolen or lost during the course of the semester.
Faculty can submit items to the electronic reserves in a variety of ways.
Items in electronic format, such as exams created in MSWord, can simply be emailed as an attachment or sent on disk to the ERes manager. The library will handle all aspects of scanning, converting, or formatting materials and make them available over the internet through a connection on our library home page. Items in paper format, such as handwritten problem solutions or journal articles, can be brought to the reserve desk where an appropriate form can be completed. Weblinks or class announcements can also be emailed to the ERes manager. Some materials cannot be put on electronic reserve and in those cases, we will make them available in our traditional format at the reserve desk.