Instructions for Faculty: Overview

 

Getting Started with ERes  

Hunter College faculty should e-mail to librsrv@hunter.cuny.edu the completed ERes Course management Application form in order to receive an ERes personal account and password and a course account and password. The email must include your course name & number, projected number of students, plus the names any of co-instructors and/or teaching assistants. The library staff will e-mail instructors (2) passwords: a personal "faculty" level password (if one is not already assigned) and a "course" password, for distribution to students enrolled in the specific course.Instructors can change a course password, but they cannot change a personal password without library assistance.

Instructors are welcome to bring personal copies of books and media to the library Reserves Desk to be placed on reserve, particularly if the library cannot acquire the material fast enough to meet a course deadline.

If you forget your personal password contact librsrv@hunter.cuny.edu. Write in the subject line whether you are locally affiliated with Hunter Main Campus, School of Social Work or Health Professions libraries. Library staff will email you back your password. Instructors interested in managing their own sites may contact the library staff below to schedule training in your Hunter College office.

Hunter Main:

Jeanne Yan

212-772-4160 or eyan@hunter.cuny.edu

Health Professions:

Donna Braithwaite

212-481-5117 or obraithw@hunter.cuny.edu

Social Work:

Arlene Shapiro

212-452-7076 or eshapiro@hunter.cuny.edu

Questions or concerns may also be directed to:
David Donabedian, Head of Access Services
Email: ddonabed@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-772-4176.

Books and Audio/Visual Materials:

Use the online Reserve Purchase Request Form to order books the library does not own, including books for which only a small portion is assigned. New orders take an average of 8 weeks to be processed and completed. Through the Reserve Request Form for Library Materials instructors can solicit that books from the Hunter collection be placed on reserve. The Library staff will place requested books on the reserve shelves and modify CUNY+ book status fields to "on reserve" on CUNY+. Instructors may also place personal materials on reserve.

Files (text, image, sound):

Manage your own course reserves

Link to articles from the HC library's Full Text Journals using a persistent link or URL. Transfer digital files (sound, image, text) from a home or office computer to a HC ERes Course Page. Scan files to ERes. The Hunter College libraries requires faculty to observe copyright guidelines and to obtain any necessary copyright clearance for all items requested for ERes. For more instruction, see:
Add Files (text, image, sound) to ERes
Add HC Article Links to ERes

or... Ask the library to do it.

Linking to ERes/Creating a Content Area for Reserves in Blackboard

The URL for your course reserves can be pasted anywhere you wish for students to access it, but it is recommended that you create a content area for reserves within Blackboard.

  1. Login to your Blackboard course page.
  2. Click on Control Panel (in the left margin).
  3. Click on Manage Course Menu (in Course Options box).
  4. Select + Content Area. 
  5. Name the field: Course Reserves.
  6. Click Submit, OK, OK.
  7. Click on Course Reserves in the Content Area box.
  8. Select + External Link.
  9. Name the field: Course Reserves.
  10. For the URL, copy and paste the course’s persistent URL

In the Text Box, type all below:
                        Password: xxxx

For copyright reasons, this password should not be shared with anyone not enrolled in this course.
11.  Click Submit, OK.  Course Reserves should appear in the left margin menu.

Finding the persistent URL for Course Reserves

  1. Search for your course in ERes: http://hunter.docutek.com/eres/courseindex.aspx?error=&page=search
  2. Once you are in the course page, click on the Course Info tab.
  3. Copy the link next to “Persistent URL:” in that tab.

For answers to Frequently Asked Questions, click here.