What are reserves?
“Reserves” or “Course reserves” are course-related materials/information that your professors make available, either electronically or physically, through the UCSD Libraries. Items that your professors may have “on reserve” for a class include: images, audio files, journal articles, videos, book chapters, practice exams etc.
Generally, reserves are materials which have been set aside by a professor to be used specifically for a class. However, an item may be listed as “on reserve” in our online catalog, when in fact it is not currently being used for a class. Check with the Librarian to determine whether or not an item listed as “on reserve” is indeed a current reserve item.
Reserves are underlying assets that are a) denominated in the same as the digital issue, and b) kept escrowed for the purpose of providing value to the issue. Commonly, reserves are redeemable, and are also bailable. That is, the user can pay to acquire them directly using the digital issuance, or can send in new reserves, and collect equivalent digital issuance in exchange. For example, a digital gold currency (DGC) would normally escrow bars of gold with a repository, and then issue exactly that amount in digital issue. Thus, the reserves would be one-for-one (1:1) and the reserve ratio would be 100%. DGCs often state in their agreement with users how committed they are to maintaining 100% reserves, and what access users have to the reserves.
