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Hi Arthur, Good question. We have not got there yet, but we plan to use command-line code to empty all e-Reserve content in one go at the end of the academic year. The courses for the new academic year will then be repopulated by the librarians. This is actually a good thing for us, as (as far as we understand) the CLA-licensed content is only licensed for a given academic year, so students shouldn't see it in later years. Thus we do really want to purge the whole thing once a year. Malcolm. --- Dr Malcolm Murray Learning Technologies Team Leader IT Service Durham University -----Original Message----- From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arthur Loughran Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:25 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Library Content - e-Reserves Malcolm, Is there any problems with orphan e-Reserves when a module is deleted, eg at rollover? thanks, Arthur >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dr. Arthur J. Loughran Senior Lecturer Centre for Learning and Teaching University of Paisley Paisley PA1 2BE tele: +44-(0)141-848-3558 fax: +44-(0)141-848-3822 email: [log in to unmask] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>> Andy Turner <[log in to unmask]> 05/12/2006 12:35:58 pm >>> hello We are just about to launch a system for staff to request scans under the new CLA licence. The Blackboard Content System is clearly ideal for managing the availability of scans, and e-reserves seems like the obvious place. But isn't there an issue where the course has to be available before a corresponding folder appears in the e-reserves content area? If staff are planning ahead it's quite possible that the scans would be ready to go into e-reserves before the course is available to students. I believe that at UWE the library staff (whose brains we have picked fairly comprehensively - many thanks) ask the Blackboard administrator to temporarily make courses available so that the relevant e-reserves folder can be populated. But this seemed to us more hassle than just manually creating a folder in Library Content. Informed advice on this very gratefully received Andy Turner Online Systems Manager Thames Valley University Tel. 0118 967 5521 [log in to unmask]