Description

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Aimed at academic library practitioners, this book describes how e-reserve services can evolve and adapt to the changing virtual learning environment of higher education. New approaches discussed include: the integration of subscribed, free, and copyrighted resources within course management systems; innovative employment of open URL link resolvers to connect e-reserve with library e-resources and services; video streaming within course documents; and the creative use of bibliographic software to produce customized reading lists. New Approaches to E-Reserve includes detailed descriptions and extensive step-by-step illustrations in order to provide readers with the tools needed to implement the techniques covered within. These combine to offer practical insight into common issues faced by academic institutions worldwide. In addition to an overview of practices and an update on new developments in e-reserve, a discussion of strategy, policy and organizational change extends this book's relevance to a much broader theme: the strategic management of current and future technological changes in tertiary education.

About the Author

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Ophelia Cheung supervises E-Reserve and Audio Visual services at Ryerson University, Canada. Dana Thomas has been an academic librarian since January 2005. She is currently at Ryerson University, Canada. Her research interests focus on usability of academic library resources and how changes in technology and library resources relate to research behavior. Susan Patrick is currently Special Collections Librarian at Ryerson University, Canada.