Location:
Student Center East, Room 713
750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
Symposium Overview Electronic reserves, or e-reserves, are course reserve readings that are made accessible electronically by linking to existing online resources such as electronic journals or by scanning print materials and making them accessible in a PDF format.
Some advantages of using e-reserves over conventional reserves are:
Once an article is on e-reserve, many users can access materials simultaneously.
All materials placed on e-reserve will reside on one of the library's servers. The article will be archived once the class is over and can be restored onto e-reserves in the future for permissible uses.
E-reserves can be accessed at anytime with a working Internet connection.
Materials are always password protected.
Students can search e-reserves by course or by the instructor's last name.
Senior Library Specialist, Pia M. Hunter, will review reserve services and additional electronic resources available to faculty and students at the UIC Library. The topics to be covered include:
The Docutek Electronic Reserve System (ERes)
Using Electronic Reserves with Blackboard
Linking to Materials in the UIC Online Collections
EBrary Electronic Book Collection
RefWorks
Copyright Resources
The symposium will include demonstrations of a variety of electronic resources and services available through the University Library.
Pia will be assisted by colleagues from the Library Reference Department and the Library of the Health Sciences.
About the Presenter Pia M. Hunter
Pia M. Hunter led the Library task force charged to implement electronic course reserves and make required readings available online and more easily accessible to all UIC students. Starting with one course in 2001, electronic reserves (ERes) are now used in over 350 courses by about 250 instructors. She has successfully led the development, implementation and improvement of reserve services to UIC faculty and students. She provides electronic reserve instruction and support for students and academic departments university-wide.
Contact For further details regarding this event, please contact External Education at (312) 355-0423 or by e-mail at exedworkshops@uic.edu.
Related Information
Faculty who would like curriculum support in developing an online or blended course can contact Karin Riggs in External Education. Using a team approach, External Education will partner with UIC's Instructional Technology Lab to identify the best solutions for developing a new online course or taking an existing course and developing an online section.
