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If you are a Faculty Member or Course Assistant and need help with your course reserves request, email reserves@tc.columbia.edu.
If you are a student having trouble accessing your course reserves, contact us here.
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Welcome to this Guide to Course Resource Lists for Instructors
Gottesman Libraries' Course Reserves Platform
Located in your Course in Canvas
Background
- Gottesman Libraries' new, permanent course reserves platform is Course Resource Lists, implemented in Spring 2022 and available to all credit-bearing courses at Teachers College
- Though located in Canvas, the platform is its own application (powered by Ex Libris' Leganto), in the same suite of applications as Primo (Educat+), the libraries' catalog and discovery platform and Alma, the libraries' administrative platform
Types of Resources
Course Resource Lists are a home for many types of resources assigned in your courses:
- Electronic resources, including Ebooks, articles, and streaming films, licensed by the Gottesman Libraries and Columbia University Libraries
- Open access articles, Ebooks, and webpages
- Records for print texts on physical reserve at the Gottesman Libraries
- Scans of small excerpts of texts only available in print at the Gottesman Libraries
Benefits
- Search and retrieval of library resources within your course in Canvas
- Lists are retained and can be rolled over to subsequent semesters
- Resources are connected to the libraries' live catalog, so you need not copy and paste permalinks
- You can communicate with the library directly from your Course Resource List