Course Reserves in ALMA

Overview

After reviewing Ex Libris's Alma documentation along with companion documentation created by other Alma libraries and consortia as found online, Midlands Technical College Library has compiled this step-by-step guide for managing course reserves in Alma.

Information for teaching faculty on how to place materials on Course Reserves can be found here:

https://libguides.midlandstech.edu/coursereserves

REQUIRED ROLES

• The options available under the Fulfillment menu are dependent upon your assigned user roles. Your list of options may be different than the screenshots included below. If you do not have options for Course Reserves, you will need to work with our User Administrators, Shawn Carraway and Evelyn Burger, to be assigned the appropriate roles for your work.
• To manage courses as part of the Course Reserve workflows, you must have one or more of the following roles:
  • Course Reserves Operator
  • Course Reserves Manager
  • Fulfillment Services Operator
  • Fulfillment Services Manager

OVERVIEW OF RESERVE WORKFLOW

These four parts must be completed to successfully put an item on reserve:

• Part 1: Adding the course(s)
• Part 2: Adding reading lists to the course(s)
• Part 3: Adding materials (reserve items) to the reading lists
• Part 4: Setting the reserves so that they show up correctly in Primo VE

Additional sections found in the how-to:

• Troubleshooting
• Workflow: Remove items from a reading list
• Workflow: Remove reading list from a course
• Workflow: Delete a reading list
• Workflow: Delete a course
• Workflow: Gather reserve statistics (forthcoming)

DOCUMENTATION FROM EX LIBRIS

• Documentation:
  • Courses and Reading Lists Workflow
  • Managing Courses
  • Managing Reading Lists
  • Managing Citations