title: The legalities and practicalities of developing a course-specific electronic reserve room.
abstract: This article discusses important issues related to maintaining the currency of readings in a nursing course. The development of a course-specific electronic reserve room is offered as a methodology for achieving both timeliness and simplified distribution of course readings. The article reviews legal issues related to the development of an electronic reserve room for internet access. In addition, hardware and software issues related to the transference of paper materials to a digital format are considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
authors.forename: Mary A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Curran
authors.forename: Kent E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Curran
mesh_terms: D003309:Copyright; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D007999:Library Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D013664:Teaching Materials; D014481:United States