Faculty & Staff

Your course likely consists of some combination of the following types of readings:

1. Readings from Required Textbooks
2. Required Readings made available through the "Readings" tab in your Canvas course.  
3. Recommended Readings

Help your students access assigned readings by:

1. Understanding where and how the students access different readings.
2. Review this with them on the first day of class.
3. Clearly noting in your syllabus where a reading can be found.  

Training Materials Available for Faculty:

• Setting up, importing, deleting, and modifying readings, PLUS more!
• We strongly encourage you to view the videos and/or handouts below before entering readings for your course with the Library Course Reserves tool. 
• If you have questions, please contact a Librarian at libraryhelp@erikson.edu. We are happy to schedule a time to work with you on your readings and are available for in-person or virtual appointments: Book an appointment here!

Required Textbooks are listed on the library website when registration opens for a semester, and later on your syllabus and in Canvas.  

Your required texts may be available from the library as eBooks. 

Please include links to these in your syllabus and/or on Canvas. Let students know these are available and what the terms of use are. Check the textbook list posted on the library website for this information, or use the Course Reserves section of the library's catalog. 

It can help your students navigate your syllabus if you give each required text a shorthand name, and then note when a reading is from a required text. 

In the list of textbooks you would list a book as:

• [Book citation here]  
• “**referred to in the weekly readings in syllabus as [abbreviation here]”
• “eBook version available from the Erikson library: [Library link to eBook here]”
• “[unlimited users / 3 users / 1 user] at a time. Print limit: [number of pages]” 

Example:

Hart, R. & Rollins, J. (2011). Therapeutic activities for children and teens coping with health issues. Wiley & Sons, Inc.  

** referred to in the weekly readings in syllabus as “Therapeutic Activities text”

eBook version available in the library: https://libcat.erikson.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opacdetail.pl?biblionumber=626033  

Unlimited users at a time. Print Limit: 60 pages. 

In the week's readings you would list the specific pages assigned:

Therapeutic Activities text: Chapter 9:  Death and bereavement (pp. 171-194) 

Another way to do this is to refer to the book by the author(s), e.g. Hart & Rollins.  

For more help, follow the detailed tutorial below:

The library facilitates access to required readings that are not from the textbook.

• We use a course reserves management system and the "Readings" area in Canvas to do this.  
• Faculty and Instructors are responsible for entering the readings in the Readings area of each course, and for using the tag feature to help your students access each week's readings. It is not enough to upload your syllabus to OneDrive. 
• We strongly encourage you to include library-supplied readings AND readings found for free online in this system. Doing so makes for "One Stop Shopping" for students, and the library system can automatically check links to ensure they are active.
• The library will enter readings for the first time for brand new courses, or for courses with substantial revisions. Please contact the library for more information.
• For readings that are not freely available online, the library applies a fair use analysis for all readings that we make available. 
  • Where possible, the library links to content in our subscription resources.  These resources do not incur copyright costs.
  • If a reading exceeds fair use, we seek permission from the rights holder (typically the publisher) to use the reading.  This can come with copyright royalty costs.
  • Academic programs pays the copyright for materials that are in excess of fair use.  
  • If you are using more than 20-30% of a book, our request might be denied, or the cost may be more expensive than the price of the book.  If this is the case, please consider making the book a required text.

• Recommended readings are, well, recommended.  They are meant to provide students with additional resources. 
• If a recommended reading is to be used for a required course assignment, it should be listed as required.  
• Students will be responsible for locating recommended readings. The Library has many online tutorials available for students to help them learn how to locate a reading. Please help your students become self sufficient information seekers by directing them to these tutorials.  
• If they need additional assistance, they can stop by the library for help or email libraryhelp@erikson.edu to set up a research appointment.