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ERes - Published Articles (Missouri)
The University of Missouri-Columbia
Libraries deployed our Docutek ERes system to help meet the
increasing demand for electronic course reserves. Due to a
substantially large amount of items placed on e-reserve by faculty,
the Libraries also use the DocuFax module, which enables
any faculty member to fax their reserve materials directly
into the system. Docutek ERes has won
praise from both the faculty and the students.
The following is an excerpt of a presentation on Docutek
ERes given by June DeWeese, Head of Access Services, University
of Missouri-Columbia Ellis Library at the Second Annual MOBIUS
Conference, June 1, 2001.
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Why Did We Choose ERes?
June DeWeese, University
of Missouri-Columbia Ellis Library
Presented at the Second Annual MOBIUS Conference,
June 1, 2001.
The reasons the University of Missouri-Columbia chose
ERes includes advantages for both students and faculty.
Advantages for students include:
- students can retrieve their course readings at their
convenience regardless of their location or library
hours,
- an unlimited number of students can access the same
files at the same time,
- no overdue fines, no cost of photocopying,
- distance learning students have access like their
on-site peers--24/7.
Advantages for faculty include:
- no photocopying,
- no folders with pages that could be lost,
- fax whenever they choose,
- they are in control of what goes up and when it
goes up,
- can be spontaneous,
- no complaints from students about things being checked
out to other students when they need the item.
The customer support from Docutek staff is terrific!
Reprinted with permission of the author..
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