Electronic reserves

[spober at manvax.cc.manhattan.edu]

This year, I wanted to add some of our college library's 
reserve materials to our website.  We limited the material
to documents to which the college or the individual faculty 
members held copyright.  This left out the bulk of the reserves,
but left a substantial minority of things like syllabi,
homework answers, handouts, and old tests that have been put
on reserve.

I personally called a number of faculty who had such materials
on reserve at the MC Libraries, and all of them thought this was
a great idea.  Unfortunately, few of them seemed to want to 
participate.  Finally, one kind soul did allow us to put up his
course materials, which I hope will encourage others.

Has anyone else had this problem of faculty reticence about putting
their reserve materials on the library web pages?  I'm unclear 
why so many people who thought this was a great idea in theory were
reticent about actually using the service.  

Also, I'm wondering what would be involved in getting copyright
permission to put some articles that are on reserve onto our web
pages.  Has anyone gone that route?  How much work was involved
in getting clearance, and what were the costs involved?
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 Stacy Pober			   Internet: spober at manvax.cc.manhattan.edu
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