E-reserves

This year, students in ENR3001 will have access to electronic reserves in lieu of a printed reading packet. The material has been provided by the University of Minnesota Library system specifically for students enrolled in U of MN courses. In most cases, the reading assignments for our class will be available either in Satz's book, or in the electronic reserves (Table of Contents here). In a few cases, the readings are only available from the reserved reading shelf of the Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife library in Hodson Hall. Please be sure to look up the readings well in advance of their due dates so you will know exactly where to find them. Our decision to provide E-reserves rather than printed packets was intended to reduce costs for students as we found in the past that course packets ranged from $50-$65.

The instructions below for accessing the E-reserves were graciously provided by Ms. Kristina Halfmann, EFW Library. Note that you will need the password that I provided in class in order to access the readings. Before you attempt to access the E-reserves, please be sure that you have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, or Acrobat Reader installed on your computer system. It is also possible that your web browser may have a built-in Acrobat Reader. If you do not currently have Acrobat Reader in any form on your computer, connect to the internet and download a free copy of the program from the Adobe website.

Now, assuming you have a working version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can proceed to the University's electronic reserves web site:

Start here: http://www.lib.umn.edu/borrowing/reserves.phtml
On this page, click on the ‘Course Reserves’ link.

This will take you to the E-Reserves page.
Click on the ‘Electronic Reserve’ link.

Type in your Course Number and click on Search. Note that our reserves are set up with the 'old' number for the course: NRES3001
When the class number appears, click on the Course Number hyperlink.

A window will also be available for you to enter your password that is provided by your instructor.

After entering the password a list of the course readings on E-Reserve will appear.

Find the reading you are looking for and click on it. Note that you will have to locate it by name, rather than by the order in which it appears in the reserves list. Consult the course web site entitled "Readings" if you are in doubt as to the name of the relevant material. Click on it again and the PDF full text version will appear.

This window is controlled by Acrobat (or Acrobat Reader). You can change the size of the page on the screen and navigate through the document with the Acrobat controls in the open window. Note that your browser is either displaying the PDF file through a built-in program called a "plug-in", or, it has automatically called up your local version of Adobe Acrobat, or, Acrobat Reader, to display the file. This can be an awkward way to do your readings, so I suggest that you open a word processor simultaneously on your computer and create a file, for example, "Doherty Chapter 1", to record your questions and notes as you go through your readings. If your browser automatically downloads the PDF file to your desktop, or to a specified storage directory (folder on Mac systems), you can open the file independently of your web browser any time you wish to re-read it.

Some of the reserve readings are in multi-part form in E-reserves. This requires that you retrieve each part in succession in order to complete the entire reading. Sorry about that, less than handy, what? Nevertheless, that's the state of our E-reserves at present. If you want the readings on paper, print out each part and staple them together.

If you want to print a hard copy of any of these readings, use the Print icon on the PDF page to print out the reading and NOT the print key on your browser.

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