Bethany Sewell
University of Denver
Traditional reserves: print and physical items
Bookstore: friend or competitor to library for traditional reserve material
Electronic reserves: all the same items as above, with perhaps some copyright restrictions (60% of UD acquisitions budget is now for e-content; about 40% of e-reserve content are now links)
Course Management Systems: often not managed by the library
Other Content: IR, Archives, finding aids, streaming videos, data sets....
The librarian needs to manage all these items and deliver them in ways meaningful to the patrons.
Course Related Content Management System requirements:
Should be a single space for all:
Faculty needs:
- compatibility with other systems
- archiving for re-use
- multi-media support
- direct faculty access
- request tracking
- authentication and password protection
- cost concerns
- quality control points
- copyright clearance control
- statistical information
- linking to licensed material
- low maintenance
- scalable
- adequate server space
- ease of use
- web based
- fast
- 24/7 technical support
CourseWare (CMS) does have multi-media support and provides direct faculty access, but doesn't manage copyright effectively and not backwards compatible (to ILS and other library resources) and lacks quality control.
Home Grown Systems: can offer what you need, but requires extensive development and maintenance
Electronic Course Pack Vendors (eg. Xanadu): expensive (cost passed on to students) and no single point of access
Vendor Solutions (Docutek Eres and Atlas' Ares): large companies (SirsiDynix purchase of Eres has resulted in degradation of service). Ares is fully customizable and meets the requirements listed above.
Ares promises integration with textbook and course-pack requests (working with bookstore)
OER Commons
Using web 2.0 citation management systems to link to e-reserve content.
A presentation layer to the catalog can allow tagging of the items that are needed on reserve for a course. Items can be searched by the tag: e-content will display and print items may be requested from a partner library.
DU currently using Docutek
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