One of the points of using e-reserves is to be able to read a document online and not have to waste paper by printing it. However, this is virtually impossible because whoever scans in the material never rotates it 90 degrees, leaving it currently appearing vertically on the computer screen. Since you cannot rotate a pdf file on most versions of adobe acrobat reader, it would make life much easier (and save the university a lot of money in paper/toner) if the simple task of rotation was done.
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Answer Person agrees that it would be nice to have all the pages display straight up, but that would more than double the scanning process for those smaller paged articles that are scanned two across. With tens of thousands of pages in e-Reserves that would simply be unreasonable.
It would also double the amount of paper used in printing them-and let’s be honest about this: many people are printing out the articles. (Especially here at Duke, where, unlike UNC-CH and NCSU, printing is free.)
Answer Person tried the two versions of Adobe on AP’s machine; 4.0 does not rotate, 5.0 does. So isn’t it curious that OIT’s download version is 4.0! We are getting OIT to update their version to 5.0 (or later0, and making sure that all the library’s public machines are also up-to-date.