Traditional reserves are photocopies of articles/book chapters, books (personal copies and library copies) and any material that a professor wants to make available to students. These materials are held behind the circulation desk and can be checked out by the student for 2 hours, 4 hours, 1 day, 3 days or 7 days. The checkout period is decided upon by the professor when the materials are submitted.

Course Reserve is a service whereby physical items can be loaned to students under restricted loan rules in order to maximize availability. Items go out for two hours, for in-library use only. Electronic Course Reserves also loans items to students in a class, but provides more flexibility. With Electronic Course Reserves, multiple students can download the same file at once, and are not limited by the physical constraints of library-only use.

Electronic reserves are accessed by searching for the course page in the Electronic Reserves Catalog. Items listed for each course are accessed by using the password provided by the instructor. These items are available in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files, which require Acrobat Reader.

The Electronic Reserve system is an online service which employs image scanning technology to provide electronic document delivery for select reserve readings. This service allows students (both on & off campus) to search, view, print and download course materials online. When registered at the Circulation Desk, students will be required to input their names and barcodes; this patron authentication ensures adherence to copyright compliance.

Electronic reserve materials will take 2 business days to process. During the first three weeks of the fall and spring semesters, we receive the most requests, so processing time for materials increases to 5 business days. Please submit all requests as early as possible.

To read the item you instructor has placed on reserve go to the Reserve Desk (located on the first floor of the library between Lending Services and the Reserve Reading Room) and look up your instructor's last name in the binders that are located on top of the Reserve Desk. Then find the correct course title and the name of the item that was assigned to you and ask for it at the Reserve Desk.

The 16 (or so) marine reserves (excluding those created by the Min of Fisheries, which protagonists claim are not marine reserves) are roughly evenly spread around our coastline, but when drawn on a map of our country, they are too small to be seen. Visit the DoC web site or Seafriends/marine reserves.

For password protected courses, only individuals given the password by faculty will have access to the materials posted for the course. People given the password should be limited to students currently enrolled in the course. Courses that are not password protected can be viewed by anyone.

The Reserves Department uses password protection to comply with copyright guidelines and limit the number of users who may view the materials posted on electronic reserve. Instructors will be notified of the password for his/her course site, and are asked to distribute it to students currently enrolled in the course.

Go to your Eres course page. At the top of the course page you will see a course info and document tab. Click on the “Course Info” tab look for the Persistent URL. Copy and paste the persistent URL in your Blackboard page. Adding this link on your Blackboard page will bypass the ERes password.

Access e-reserves via the online catalog. You can search by your professor's last name or by the course number. To access the material, you will use your last name as login and your barcode as the password. Your barcode is available from the Library's circulation desk. (Phone number: 757-594-7133)

When I try to open PDF files I've gotten through Web Document Delivery, Adobe Acrobat opens, but I only get blank pages.

To read electonic reserve materials, most of which are in ".pdf" format, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software. If you don't already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download a free copy.

That depends. If the item is an ebook from one of our electronic collections (such as Safari Tech Books Online, Xrefer Reference Collection, or the ACLS History E-Book Project), then we can link to it from your course reserve page. And if a book is freely available online, we can certainly point to it. However, we cannot take a physical book and scan it in for Electronic Course Reserves, as this would be a violation of Copyright Law.

Bring them to the library on paper, cd, or disk. Files that are under 4MB (the college’s email attachment limit) may be emailed to heron@dwc.edu after filling out the Course Reserve Request Form at http://www.dwc.edu/library/eres.shtml. There are no set limitations; however, common sense should prevail. As a general rule, smaller, more compressed files will be easier for students to download.

Here's one way to burn a CD in the library: (a) put a CD-r disc in one of the black HP computers in the library; (b) open each electronic reserve file that you want to burn and save it to the desktop temporarily (you can't save directly to the CD drive); (c) open the Roxio Drag-to-Disc program: click Start, select All Programs, select Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator, select Drag-to-Disk; (d) drag files you wish to burn from the desktop or a floppy to the Drag-to-Disc icon and release them; (e) pus.

Both GIS and traditional maps represent the real world. One way of thinking about it is that the GIS is the data while the map is the picture. The end result of GIS analysis is often a map, or cartographic output, but it is only one of many output types. Once created, a traditional map cannot be changed. However, as an integrated system, a GIS allows users to ask new questions of a database and visualize answers.

In traditional knee replacement, an approximately 10 to 12 inch skin incision is made centered over the knee. This is followed by making an incision into the quadriceps tendon above the knee, down the side of the kneecap and two inches below the joint and then the kneecap is flipped 180 degrees and off to the side (everted). The knee is then bent up to expose the bones of the knee for resurfacing with the knee prosthesis.

The difference is in the size of the skin incision and, more importantly, how much muscle and tissue is cut to put the total joint components in. Cutting less muscle results in less pain, less swelling and potentially a quicker recovery. No, the same components are used in MIS hip replacement surgery that are used in traditional surgery. They are just put in through smaller incisions in the skin and muscle using specialized instruments.

The SDO uses fluid silicone to guide the foot into its best position on the ground naturally. A traditional orthotic confines the foot to a pre-set position and tries to control the foot through the footstep. The SDO is the only orthotic in the world that moves with the motion of the arch and cushions the end of the motion where the foot gets ready to move off. A traditional support stops the motion abruptly, which makes it impossible for most people to tolerate beyond the first 2-4 months.

This is hard to answer because I don't know what "traditional modeling" within your environment. In many organizations the traditional approach to modeling is to develop relatively detailed models before coding begins. Sometimes these models are kept up to date, sometimes they are not, and sometimes they're even used to generate code (often a good thing). Each of these models are often created by a single, expert person who typically spends most of their time working alone.

You can access our Electronic Databases from off campus. Use the number on your TC3 Card. Distance students or staff without a card can look up their ID number on IQ Web.

Yes. We continue to implement this new service, providing a combination of scanned documents and links to web pages. Photocopied items normally checked out on short loan from the Reserve Desk can now also be scanned into Adobe PDF files, which can then be viewed on a computer using the Adobe Reader web browser plug in.

We are currently limiting faculty to 12 articles per class per semester. We also have the ability to provide you with statistics on how often the articles are accessed, (though not by whom) so you can determine which articles posted are being used heavily or not at all.