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Placing Audio Items on E-Reserve

When We Need Your Recordings

If you would like your listening assignments to be ready at the beginning of classes, we will need the materials described below by two weeks prior to the first day of classes. Materials submitted after this date will not be available when classes begin.  

Instructions 

1. Fill out the Audio E-Reserves Request Form, including call numbers, layout preferences, and contact information. Print copies are also available from the Circulation Desk.
2. Library staff will retrieve the sound recordings and prepare them for e-reserves; it is not necessary to check out these items.
3. Be sure to note sound recordings that are currently on reserve.
4. Deliver the form to David Butler in the Music and Performing Arts Library (dmbutler@uiuc.edu). Please also contact David with any questions.

If you would like us to encode an existing anthology that you have prepared for your class, we prefer working with a burned CD rather than cassette tapes. Please be advised that we may need to keep personal copies of sound recordings for several weeks, depending on how quickly they can be processed.

If a recording not owned by the library is needed for your reserves, we will be happy to try to acquire a copy for our collection. Because of copyright restrictions, however, we cannot encode personal copies of sound recordings unless the recording is already a part of our collection, is on order, or is out of print.

Suggest Your Preferred Layout

We can arrange the selections in a number of ways: alphabetically by composer, chronologically by date of composition, in syllabus order, etc. Please let us know how you would like your materials presented. If you would like them arranged in syllabus order, please supply a copy of the syllabus. Please indicate any extra headings for week or assignment number.

Give Us Your Contact Information

Please be sure to provide some simple contact information (preferably email) on the Audio E-Reserves Request Form so that we can reach you if questions arise as we process your order.

Other things to remember

1. Production of materials for classroom use remains the responsibility of the instructor. We cannot produce CDs or tapes of the sound files we make available on the web.
2. Once the semester begins, we will need at least one-week's advance notice to mount additional listening examples.

Web Addresses to Include in Your Syllabus

All audio e-reserves prepared by the Music and Performing Arts Library are available from http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/querycourse.asp. This is the link you should include in your syllabus as well as in your own course-related web pages.

How do my students access the e-reserve recordings online?

• You and your students may access e-reserves via the Online Library Catalog or Directly. In both cases the material is accessed by course and instructor. If accessed directly, the list retrieved does not include any print materials such as full-length books you may have also placed on reserve.

• For a complete explanation of how to access e-reserve materials, please see our Online Tutorial.

For comments on this page contact: Music and Performing Arts Library

Last modified by: Kirstin Dougan on 9/19/08