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Course Resource Lists

This guide provides instructors with step-by-step instructions for using the libraries' course reserves platform.

Welcome to this Guide to Course Resource Lists for Instructors

Gottesman Libraries' Course Reserves Platform

Located in your Course in Canvas

Published Course Resource List viewed from within Canvas

Background

  • Course Resource Lists is the Gottesman Libraries' course reserves platform, 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
  • Course Resource Lists were launched in Spring 2022, and received an interface upgrade, designed by Ex Libris, in Summer 2024

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