Faculty using Blackboard can request certain materials from the library to be placed on electronic reserve and then can make those resources available to students via a link from within Blackboard.
Complete details regarding submitting full-text electronic reserve requests is available at: http://www.ulib.niu.edu/ereserveguide.cfm
To submit an electronic reserve request, click here or go to: http://www.ulib.niu.edu/reserveform.cfm.
After placing a request for materials to be placed on electronic reserve, the faculty member will be notified via email once reserve materials have been secured. Reserve staff will inform the Faculty Member of the URL of a Web page containing links to all the materials. Faculty will then share the URL with only the students enrolled in the class. The link will be broken at the end of each semester. A new URL will be assigned if the readings are requested for subsequent semesters. Readings will be stored for up to two years before they are permanently removed from storage.
The process for adding the link within a Blackboard course to the e-reserves is simply a matter of adding an external link to a desired content area within Blackboard.
For more information concerning electronic reserves at NIU, contact:
Cynthia Snyder
104 Founders Memorial Library
Phone: (815) 753-0163
E-mail: csnyder@niu.edu