Music Library Audio E-Reserves

Instructions for Faculty

When We Need Your Recordings

If you would like your listening assignments to be ready at the beginning of classes, we will need the materials described below by two weeks prior to the first day of classes. Materials submitted after this date will not be available when classes begin.

Web Addresses to Include in Your Syllabus

All audio e-reserves prepared by the Music Library are available from
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/querycourse.asp. This is the link you should include in your syllabus as well as in your own course-related web pages.

Print e-reserves

Through a cooperative program with the Undergraduate Library, the Music Library is now able to provide e-reserves for book excerpts, scores, and journal articles. Here are instructions for submitting the materials for print e-reserves

Submitting Recordings for Audio E-Reserves

Please use our Audio E-Reserves Request Form formats. Print copies are also available from the Circulation Desk.

Quick List

  1. Fill out the Audio E-Reserves Request Form, including layout preferences, additional links, and contact information.
  2. Collect recordings (see below)
  3. Deliver the form and the recordings to David Butler in the Music Library (dmbutler@uiuc.edu). Please also contact David with any questions.

Detailed Instructions

  • Collect Recordings

    Collect the compact discs and LPs from the Music Library's collection and deliver them, along with the Audio E-Reserves Request Form, to David Butler. It is not necessary to check out these items.

    For sound recordings that are currently on reserve, you should simply submit the call numbers of the recordings. Library staff will retrieve the sound recordings and prepare them for e-reserves.

    If you would like us to encode an existing anthology that you have prepared for your class, we prefer working with a burned CD rather than cassette tapes. Please be advised that we may need to keep personal copies of sound recordings for several weeks, depending on how quickly they can be processed.

    If a recording not owned by the library is needed for your reserves, we will be happy to try to acquire a copy for our collection. Because of copyright restrictions, however, we can not encode personal copies of sound recordings unless the recording is already a part of our collection, is on order, or is out of print.

  • Suggest Your Preferred Layout
    We can arrange the selections in a number of ways: alphabetically by composer, chronologically by date of composition, in syllabus order, etc. Please let us know how you would like your materials presented. If you would like them arranged in syllabus order, please supply a copy of the syllabus. Please indicate any extra headings for week or assignment number.
  • Give Us Your Contact Information
    Please be sure to provide some simple contact information (preferably email) on the Audio E-Reserves Request Form so that we can reach you if questions arise as we process your order.

Other things to remember

  1. Production of materials for classroom use remains the responsibility of the instructor. We cannot produce CDs or tapes of the sound files we make available on the web.
  2. Once the semester begins, we will need at least one-week's advance notice to mount additional listening examples.