RE: [IUG] Course Reserves

["Seeman, Corey Glenn" <CSeeman at UTNet dot UToledo dot Edu>]

Wow...has the list been busy or what!
 
Please see my notes below --
 
You Wrote -- 

We're a Higher Ed. College that doesn't have a short loan collection, all items on reading lists are out on the open shelves. We'd like our lists to comprise of all material types including books, video, electronic books and journals, and documents/images etc. We have Media Management and are working to get to grips with that too! We're also using ERM with a coverage database.

1. Is there a way to display an electronic resource without adding an item to it (eg. electronic journal or book)? We've added an item initially, and suppressed it so it doesn't show in the main catalogue, but the item line is showing in reserves.
 
NOTE:  The only way to add something to a course record is by creating an item and placing it on reserves.  Even if you have electronic reserves and no physical item, you need to create one to add to the course.  
 
At the University of Toledo, we supress both the bib record AND the item record when we place an electronic item on reserves.  (see http://utmost.cl.utoledo.edu/search/r?chem+1230+Previous+Exam+III)
 
The value of this is that the student does not see extra information such as call number, location, and status for something that they would download instead of physically touch.  

2. Can anyone give me examples of how they have used course reserves in a creative way?
 
NOTE:  We have done some creative organizations based upon the requests of the faculty.  We try to do whatever they want (including creating different courses for different entities within a course as well as timing when items become active).  To see what we have done for basic Chemistry, see: http://utmost.cl.utoledo.edu/search/r?chem+1230  There are probably many more creative approaches.  You are somewhat flexible here and can do just about whatever you want.  

3. What's the major difference between course reserves and electronic course reserves?
 
NOTE:  Course Reserves is the basic module that is intended to be used to place physical items on reserves and allow them to be searched by the faculty or course name or number.  
 
Electronic Course Reserves is the module that allows you to scan or import documents so that the Innovative system is managing the electronic content as well.  We have been really happy with it at Toledo.  The electronic documents are in a 962 MARC field in the bib record.  If you have Media Management, you should have this, but I am not 100% sure if it is one and the same product.  The nice part about using Electronic Course Reserves is that you can put into a single course all the material that the faculty needs, be it physical (book, video, etc.) or electronic (PDF, html, etc.).
 
I have an Electronic Course Reserves manual in the IUG Clearinghouse:
 
http://innovativeusers.org/cgi-bin/clearinghouse/view.pl?id=10
 
There are five items on Course Reserves in the Clearinghouse all told:
 
http://innovativeusers.org/cgi-bin/clearinghouse/search.pl?module1=on&module2=on&module3=on&method=phrase&words=Course%20Reserves
 
Hope this helps.
 
Best -- Corey
 
 


 
 
Corey Seeman
University of Toledo
corey dot seeman at utoledo dot edu
http://library.utoledo.edu/userhomes/cseeman/
 
As of November 28
Kresge Business Administration Library
University of Michigan
cseeman at bus dot umich dot edu
 
 

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From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org on behalf of Mandy Phillips
Sent: Tue 11/15/2005 11:25 AM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] Course Reserves



Dear all,

We've just implemented course reserves and have a few questions, but firstly let me give you some background as to how we hope to use it.

We're a Higher Ed. College that doesn't have a short loan collection, all items on reading lists are out on the open shelves. We'd like our lists to comprise of all material types including books, video, electronic books and journals, and documents/images etc. We have Media Management and are working to get to grips with that too! We're also using ERM with a coverage database.

1. Is there a way to display an electronic resource without adding an item to it (eg. electronic journal or book)? We've added an item initially, and suppressed it so it doesn't show in the main catalogue, but the item line is showing in reserves.

2. Can anyone give me examples of how they have used course reserves in a creative way?

3. What's the major difference between course reserves and electronic course reserves?

Thanks in advance,

Mandy


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