ERES

electronic reserves

Eres is a shortened version of Electronic Reserves, and at Drury Library, it is also a product of Sirsi/ Docutek, a company that provides electronic services to libraries. Their ERes software allows instructors to set up an electronic course page that contains a syllabus, course assignments, journal articles, book chapters, and a wide variety of digital presentation formats such as Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, work-processed files, Excel spread sheets, digital audio and video clips, and virtually and other type of file. Course pages may include a bulletin board capability. Instructors who wish to set up an ERes account and a course page should contact Craig Smith at csmith@drury.edu or by phone at 1 -41-873-7339, or Barbi Dickensheet at bdickensheet@drury.edu or by phone at 1.-417-873-7882.

Instructors may request that the library set up reserve materials for them electronically on a web page for convenient 24/7 access by their students. In that case, the course page will be created using the ERes software and provide the instructor with everything he or she needs, including a course page password to give to students. Students may access the materials from a computer at any time and either read or print it. Library staff will inform faculty if their reserve requests may violate the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976.

Faculty who have obtained an ERes account from the library may create their own course page and may also ask the library to add copyrighted materials to the page, creating a single point of reference for all call materials. As a reminder, complete books must either be place on paper reserve or have been granted copyright permission to be placed on an ERes course page.

To obtain an ERes account, call Barbi Dickensheet, Assistant Circulation Manager at 1-417-873-7486 or Craig Smith, Head of Public Services, at 1-417-873-7339.