Library Resources for Faculty

Bell Library offers a course reserves program which allows a faculty member to place materials online to be accessed by students via Canvas (using a tool called Course Library), or in a print collection in the library. We will also help you make media such as films and television episodes available for your classes.

Course Library is a plug-in for Canvas that makes it possible for faculty to create bespoke reading lists for their classes, combining library materials, uploaded files, and web resources seamlessly inside their Canvas course.

Print reserves make it possible for faculty to curate a collection of print resources held in the library for their students. Using print course reserves allows faculty to:

• Pull books from the library's collection and set them aside in a special area for their class so they can't be checked out and become unavailable to everyone else
• Provide copies of textbooks for their students to use
• Provide personal copies of books that they want their students to read for class

Media reserves are hosted on a platform called Mediasite. If you have a DVD you would like your students to watch, or if there is one in the library's collection you'd like to use, we can digitize that item, get it closed captioned if necessary, and host it so that you can link to it from Canvas.

For more information about course reserves, please visit the Course Reserves page on the library's website.

Questions? Email libreserves@tamucc.edu or call 361-825-2340.