The Auraria library will implement changes to its Course Reserve system in the spring semester, beginning in January 2005. The changes are designed to streamline students' access to information.

All reserve items will be scanned and placed online, unless it is physically impossible to do so. This includes articles, lecture notes and student papers. So, if professors normally had their reserve items put in folders, the library will now scan the items and link them to the Course Reserves page for each class. The only exception to this will be for those items that can not be scanned (poor copies, oversize items, etc.), which will continue to be put into folders. This change will allow students to have access to these items at any hour and print them anywhere. Also, it will enable the library to comply with copyright law and stay within the fair use guidelines more easily.

The library will be upgrading to a new version of the Course Reserve software. The upgrade will be done over the winter break, so the Course Reserve pages will have a different look in the spring semester. There may also be some differences in how the pages are navigated and improvements to some of the features of the software.

All reserve materials must be submitted to Course Reserves no later than Jan. 3, in order for these materials to be processed and available to students within the first week of the spring semester. It will take a minimum of 48 hours to process reserve materials after this date.