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Course Reserves
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Course Reserves are supplementary course materials that an
instructor makes available to his/her students in the library.
Examples are: books, journal articles, classpaks, homework
assignments, case studies, sample exams etc. There are two
types of course reserves that may be available in the divisional
libraries of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library system:
print reserves and electronic reserves.
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Print reserves are traditional hard copy reserve materials
that instructors put "on reserve" in the library. Students
must visit the library in order to obtain the print reserves
for their class. A current list of the available print reserves
may be searched by instructor name, course name or course
number in the Acorn
catalog. Some libraries also maintain separate lists of
their currently available print reserves. Print reserves may
be photocopied or checked out of the library for short periods
of time, but circulation
policies vary from library to library. Each divisional
library handles their print reserves somewhat differently
so you may need to ask for help at your library's Circulation
or Reserves department
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Electronic reserves
(ereserves) are digitized reserve materials that are made
available to students inside and outside of the library via
the campus computer network. Ereserves are typically scanned
versions of print reserves or links to articles and other
types of documents in full-text electronic sources. Ereserves
are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from anywhere
on or off campus to authorized Vanderbilt users. Students
don't need to visit the library to access electronic course
reserves. The Heard Library currently uses the ERes system
to make its electronic reserves available on the campus network.
Students may search ERes by instructor name, course name or
course number for a list of the currently available ereserves
for their class. Some divisional libraries list their ereserves
in Acorn as well. Ereserve documents are usually available
in PDF format, which requires the installation of the Acrobat
Reader plugin in order to read and print the files. Because
of copyright restrictions some course reserve materials cannot
be made available electronically. Again, you may need to ask
for help at your library's Circulation or Reserves department.
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credit: Lynn Cradick
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