[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic Reserves

[Art W Rhyno]

Hi Tara,

Syrup is being positioned to provide services in response to a fluid 
copyright  situation in Canada (Michael Geist has a good summary of one of 
the biggest issues at <http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5250/125/> 
and, incidentally, appeared before the legislative committee dealing with 
the new copyright bill today). There are 
svn instructions at <
http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS-Contrib/wiki/SyrupReserves/> and you can 
kick the tires a bit here <http://showcase.uwindsor.ca/syrup/>. Otherwise, 
our library is using bookbags for reserves in production and it works out 
fine for our needs, we don't have a large set of reserves materials at 
this point. An implication of the new copyright situation is that much 
more of the campus' course materials would be tracked by the library, and 
we would use  syrup for this. 

Robin Isard at Algoma has been working on enhancing the bookbag mechanism 
within Evergreen specifically for reserves and this will add to the 
options as well. Robin's been pulled into other projects, a common theme 
for all of us, but I think he hopes to get his enhancements in place 
before the end of the year. Bookbags are a good temporary measure if 
nothing else, our previous system was arguably not as flexible for 
reserves as what bookbags offer out of the box so we haven't had too many 
transition issues.

art
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Art Rhyno
Systems Librarian, University of Windsor
Chair, Knowledge Ontario Technical Committee
Co-owner, The Essex Free Press
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