Reserves

Reserves at Bucknell encompasses both traditional reserves system, which includes books, maps, movies, etc., as well as electronic reserves system that provides online access to materials.

Electronic Reserves(E-Res)

Bucknell uses ERes by Docutek to create electronic course web pages and make articles, book chapters, old exams, problem sets, and homework solutions available online.

Deb Balducci (577-3709) and Mary Beth James (577-1038) maintain electronic reserves for Bucknell. Since a pilot program in the spring of 1996, Bucknell's electronic reserves have grown to include over 450 courses online.

Faculty can drop off materials for scanning, send email attachments directly to ERes by using the eres@bucknell.edu address, or send URLs to this address for links to be made on the course pages, or faculty can manage their own pages by using the straightforward menus on the ERes pages. More information for faculty can be found on the Info for faculty pages.

Traditional Reserves(E-Res)

Mary Jean Woland (577-3287) manages the traditional reserves and oversees all aspects of placing books, films (videos and DVDs), personal copies, and unscannable items on hard copy reserve. The loan periods for these items range from 1 hour to overnight and Bucknell students and staff can check material out with their IDs from the Reserve desk on the first floor of Bertrand Library. The forms needed to place material on reserve are available below and they are available at the desk.

Put library-owned books, videos, or multimedia on reserve: Form to be used when requesting that books videos and multimedia material from the library collection or personal copies be placed on reserve.

Information for faculty

Information for students

Copyright information

Adobe Acrobat and electronic reserves - Information about why we use Adobe Acrobat for e-reserves and how it works.

Scanning at Bucknell - We are frequently asked how we scan material at Bucknell and what software, hardware and processes we use. Here is a description of our setup.