Reduce barriers for students and streamline your course preparation
Course Resource Services helps instructors and course designers provide students with accessible, ready-to-use learning materials at no additional cost. Whether you're teaching or designing a course, we work with you to source and deliver eBooks, articles, streaming media, and more, all directly in Canvas through the Library Resource Organizer (LRO).
When you set up and submit your LRO, you can help students save an average of $237* per course. From supporting student success to ensuring copyright and accessibility compliance, we make course preparation easier, faster and more effective.
*for academic year 2024-2025
Get started today
As soon as you know when you will be teaching or designing a course, take these steps to create and submit your LRO.
- Create your ASU Library Resource Organizer in Canvas.
- Add and organize your course materials.
- Submit to the library to review.
Create your ASU Library Resource Organizer for Canvas
Your personalized library catalog, built for your course
The Library Resource Organizer is the best tool to create and manage course materials in one place. Seamlessly integrated with Canvas, use the LRO to build customized reading lists using library-licensed and print materials with no extra logins or platforms needed. It ensures students have free, accessible Day One access from any device.
Get started with the Library Resource Organizer tutorial.
Finding and organizing your materials
With over 747 databases (including streaming video and audio), 2.7 million e-books and 149 million journal articles, the ASU Library collection is a treasure trove of accessible scholarly content. We recommend starting with ASU Library collections and open education materials to get your course semester-ready.
Search the library
Search for a variety of library content in all formats for course use, including extensive streaming audio and video options.
Add resources to your LRO
Directly connect to the ASU Library catalog through the LRO to find materials you want for your class and embed them within Canvas.
Activate the CITE IT browser extension
Whether you are browsing library collections, searching your favorite database or reading an article online, use the LRO’s CITE IT browser extension to link to relevant materials.
Copyright and Accessibility responsibilities
Course Resource Services focuses on facilitating access to published or third-party course materials, not instructor-created content. If an item in our collection isn’t available digitally, please reach out. Our team will digitize articles and excerpts from books and media in compliance with copyright and accessibility requirements. Alternatively, we will purchase the resource if possible. Please review our textbook availability statement.
Instructor-provided materials
We will remediate published material provided by instructors that the library does not own, such as scanned book chapters or articles, provided that the requests comply with the library’s Copyright Policy and the scan is of sufficient quality to enable remediation.
Instructor-created materials
Course Resource Services is not able to remediate content created by instructors, such as lecture notes, slides or other course content. Review the ASU Accessibility Guides for recommendations on making course content accessible.
Submitting your materials
Once you’ve created your LRO, click the "My List is ready" button located in the banner at the top of the screen to notify us that you’re ready for us to process your course!
To ensure your students have access to course materials on the first day of the semester, please submit your LRO for review at least three weeks before the session begins.
I love working with ASU Library Course Resource Services! The readings and other resources are organized seamlessly in my class Canvas page and my students appreciate that they can easily navigate to each module's materials. I especially like how this approach makes sure the readings are accessible to different learners globally.
Katie Hinde Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
I love the Library Resource Organizer for so many reasons. Students appreciate the access to free library materials in their courses, and instructors value the ease of loading content for review, digitization and purchase by the library. As an instructional designer, I appreciate the beautiful and easy-to-embed content on the pages in Canvas. Highly recommend getting to know the LRO and how it works in Canvas.
Mary Loder Online Learning Manager, ASU EdPlus
Physical resources on reserve
ASU Library can place a physical copy of a resource on reserve at the information desk of any library location. This can include library-owned materials or your personal copies.
Please note: ASU Library is not responsible for loss or damage of personal materials while on the Course Resource shelf.
When adding a physical item to your Library Resource Organizer (LRO), you can choose from the following checkout durations for students:
- 2-hour loan
- 4-hour loan (default if not specified)
- 1-day loan
- 3-day loan
- 7-day loan
If you provide your own materials, you can drop them off at any ASU Library location. To ensure tracking and access, your items will be processed into the library system. This includes:
- Applying clear tape to the front cover and/or spine
- Adding a call number label
- Adding a barcode label
- Affixing a loan period label
Availability of materials on the Course Resource shelf may be affected by:
- Inability to locate the item in the library collection
- Delays from vendors in acquiring requested materials
All physical materials will be removed at the end of each semester unless you notify us of continued use. You will receive a notice when your personal materials are ready for pickup.
If you plan to be off campus for an extended period, please retrieve your items in advance.
Get in touch
ASU Library Course Resource Service
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 480-965-3159
Music Library Course Resource Service
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 480-965-3513
Ross-Blakley Law Library Reserve
Phone: 480-965-6144