e-Reserve Setting

e-Reserves allow librarians to make content available to users throughout the system. Content may be made available in the Library Content folder, or placed into a course folder within e-Reserves. Administrators may enable or disable the creation of e-Reserve folders from the Manage e-Reserves page. All users, except Guests and Observers, may view the content in the e-Reserves folders, but only the librarian may add or modify content.

Follow these steps to open the e-Reserve Setting page.

1. Open the Administrator Panel.

2. Select e-Reserves under Content System.

Select Yes to enable the creation of e-Reserve folders for each course in the Blackboard Learning System. Select No and e-Reserve folders will not be automatically created. If No is selected and e-Reserves is enabled at a later date, course folders within e-Reserves for courses added while e-Reserves was disabled, will be automatically generated by the Instructor, Teaching Assistant, or Course Builder.

The create-course-directory command line tool creates a directory for a course with a given course ID and assigns appropriate permissions for that course and roles. This command line tool will also initialize the e-Reserve directory for a course. e-Reserves must be enabled in the system for this to be successful. See the Blackboard Content System Setup Guide for additional information.

If the Administrator does not generate the e-Reserve directory, course folders within e-Reserves are automatically generated when the Instructor, Teaching Assistant or Course Builder selects the e-Reserves folder in the file system. For example, if the Instructor for a history class would like to create an e-Reserve folder, he or she would click the e-Reserve folder. A folder with the Course ID of the history class will automatically appear in the e-Reserves area.

Administrators must create librarians to manage the content of e-Reserves. A librarian is a user who has full permissions to folders in e-Reserves. Librarians are the only users who may add and modify content in this area; all other users, with the exception of Guests and Observers, have read access to this area. Instructors may also add items from e-Reserves to their courses.

Follow the steps below to create a librarian (multiple librarians may be created)

1. Check that e-Reserves has been enabled through the Administrator Panel.

2. Select Manage Content from the Administrator Panel.

3. Select library in the file system.

4. Select Modify next to e-Reserves. The Modify  e-Reserves page will appear.

5. Select Permissions. The Manage Permissions  e-Reserves Setting page will appear.

6. Select Add User. The Add User  e-Reserves page will appear.

7. Complete the page. Enter the Username of the librarian in the Username field. Select all options (Read, Write, Remove, and Manage) in the Permissions field. Click Submit.