During the fall semester we compiled statistics on the use of materials placed on reserve in the Life Sciences Library. There were approximately 9600 circulations of these materials. Of these, over half were for non-copyrighted materials such as exams, lecture notes, or homework solutions. At times students were lined up 1- to 20 deep at the Circulation desk, waiting to check out these popular items. You, yourself, may have run into the long lines at the photocopiers that occurred as the students wa ited to photocopy notes and old tests.
Some faculty provide course-related material to students via a Web site.
In that way their students have convenient access to what they need 24 hours a day. We encourage those faculty and instructors who have not yet made reserve materials available this way to consider doing so. Some of the topics this presentation will cover are scanning, converting existing test and visual materials into electronic formats and using Microsoft Office to convert documents and presentations to Web pages. No registration is required. Databases are updated weekly.