• Electronic Reserve allows electronic copies of lecture notes and articles - the material traditionally placed on Closed and Open Reserve - to be accessed via the Library Catalogue.
• The Library can also place books, AV items and computer discs into the restricted Reserve Collection at any campus - these items are then only available as a restricted loan within the library.
  
• The Library is also able to include URLs in E-Reserve. If you have a course web site on the staff server or a faculty server - submit the URL and the Library can include it on the catalogue as part of E-Reserve. This will make it much easier for students to locate. They simply need to type in their course code or the lecturer/teachers name in as a Reserve search on the catalogue and they will see a link through to the URL of your site.
  
• The standard turnaround time for E-Reserve/Reserve processing is 3 working days.

Submission Guidelines / Submission Form for (Electronic) Reserve

Strict copyright legislation is in place to cover the digitising of material - please visit the Library Copyright site to learn more about this.

The electronic format selected for Electronic Reserve is Adobe PDF.  This is a well known format and the software required to read it (Adobe Acrobat Reader) is freely available to download and use.

One of the key benefits of selecting PDF as a standard format is ease of use. The full Adobe Acrobat software required to convert files to PDF costs under $80 and can be purchased via Information Technology Acquisitions.

• Sample of a Microsoft Word document converted to PDF

Once installed - Adobe Acrobat is integrated seamlessly  into MS Office applications and documents can simply be printed to Adobe instead of a conventional printer, this will automatically generate a pdf file of the Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.

• Step-by-step guide for printing to PDF from Microsoft Office.

It is also very easy to scan materials directly into PDF when Adobe Acrobat is installed.

We can guarantee fast access to E-Reserve articles downloaded on campus on the University network. We cannot guarantee the speed of the different networks/internet service providers that clients use in their home/office.

In order to provide efficient access to E-Reserve articles across variable Internet connections, it is sometimes necessary for E-Reserve staff to mount a scanned version of an article in multiple sections.

This is done to avoid having one very large file mounted and allows the student to download 2 or more small sections. If any network error occurs causing a problem during one of their downloads,  only one part of the article is lost and they don't have to begin the entire process again.

The Library Catalogue secures the material and requires patrons to enter their barcode and PIN. This ensures that the material is protected from general internet users.

Students and staff of Victoria University can access Electronic Reserve material wherever they have access to a World Wide Web browser (Mozilla) and Adobe Acrobat Reader. This makes the material accessible on campus, at home, work or wherever the student requires it.