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E-Resource - Course Reserves
Leganto is within Brightspace and supports creating and managing course material reading lists. Instructors can build, maintain, and share resource lists that include all material types in a single list so that students can access all their course materials in one place.
Students and faculty have access to course materials 24/7 through Brightspace.
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Why use E-Reserves (Leganto)?
- Reduced workload for instructors
- Reading lists can be saved and reused across semesters
- The ability to create multiple reading lists in draft form allows instructors to work at their own pace
- Autonomy in developing, changing, updating, and saving course lists
- Adding notes to help direct students to specific items
- Easy to update and add material
- Search the library's catalog and link directly to resources; no need to deal with off-campus access or link maintenance
- Instructors can add non-library materials from other internet resources (PDFs, videos, newspaper articles)
- Improved student experience
- Centrally located course materials
- Affordable, equitable access to library-purchased materials
- The interactive platform increases student engagement
- Other useful benefits
- The My Collection folder
- store material that might be needed for course or research
- students also have this item and can store material for their research/papers/assignments
- Updates to lists are immediately available to the student
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Tradition physical reserves vs E-Reserves
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Traditional Reserves
- Physical items from the library collection or Instructor's items
- Housed in the library with a limited loan policy
- Accessible during Library hours
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E-Reserves
- Digital items found in or outside of the library collection
- Everything is housed online
- Accessible 24/7
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For more information and how to use Leganto,
please visit the E-Reserves Library Guide.
course reserve libguide