Course Reserves

When instructors request materials placed on Course Reserves, a “Course Reserves” link will appear in the course navigation bar (Fig. 1)

Note: The instructor chooses placement order in the course navigation bar.  Course Reserves may be placed anywhere in the list.

What do the buttons do?

• Fig 41. - Main Menu
  • Page containing all current enrolled classes of the student
• Fig 42. - My Favorites
  • Page of all current items marked as favorites.
• Fig 43. - Search Items
  • Search for course, instructor, title, author  
• Fig 44. – Help
  • Course Reserves main page
    • Page contains help, additional information, FAQs and more.
• Fig 45. - Course information
  • Course and semester for current page
• Fig 46. – Tags
  • There will only be tags in this section if the student or instructor have added tags.  Clicking a tag will list all items with the tag.
• Fig 47. – Sort
  • Drop down choice of sorting by Default, Author, Title and Availability Date
• Fig 48. - Tag Editor
  • This button will open the tag editor, which can add or remove personal tags.​
    • Students cannot remove instructors’ tags, only their personal tags.
• Fig 49. - Show Details/View Item
  • Show Details goes to a page with additional information about the item
  • View Item will only appear on electronic items.  Opens the electronic item.
  • For more information see Diagram N below
• Fig 50. - Add/Remove Favorites
  • Adds and removes items on the favorites list
• Fig 51. - Details about items
  • Title, Author, Available Date, Location, Tags
    • Location is needed for hard copies to determine where the item is located
• Fig 52. - Search bar for columns
  • Entering information in the search box at the top of a column will only pull items in the column matching it.
• Fig 53. – Tags
  • These tags work the same as (Fig. 46)

What do the buttons do?

Selecting the “Show Details” link (Diagram M, Fig. 49 above) will go to one of these pages.

• Fig. 54 – This item is a hard copy item on Course Reserves at the Parks Library
  • To check this material out, the student must ask for this call number.
• Fig. 55 – This item is an electronic item
  • View this item will open the file