[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Academic Reserves

[Tara Robertson]

Thanks Dan for describing your workflow. That makes a lot of sense. Until
you pointed it out, I hadn't noticed the link to Course reserves in the
footer of your OPAC.

This is a super useful example, thanks again.

Tara

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:41:28PM -0500, Art W Rhyno wrote:
> <snip>
> > 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.
>
> To add to this, Laurentian is using bookbags (one per course) for the
> basic purpose of collecting together records of interest for the given
> course, then pulling those into a relatively basic interface for
> finding a list of your course reserves. Kevin Beswick is the brains
> behind this approach, and had developed a nicer UI with features like
> filtering... but ran into trouble getting it working on IE, and that
> fell by the wayside in lieu of the work that Robin and Art are doing on
> their respective pieces.
>
> You can see what it looks like by going to our catalogue
> (http://laurentian.concat.ca) and clicking the "Course reserves" link on
> the footer. The course "GEOG 3497" is a reasonable example.
>
> Our current workflow is roughly:
>
> 1. Faculty ask for items to be put on reserve (we have a longstanding
> tradition of paper forms for this purpose)
>
> 2. If the item already exists in our ILS, circ staff log in as a special
> bookbag user and create a new public bookbag (if necessary) for that
> course using a "<course code> - <professor name>" naming convention,
> then add the item to the bookbag
>
> 3. If the item needs to be catalogued (professor's personal copy or the
> like) it gets sent to our technical services department for a rush
> cataloging job. If we're still using this system on 2.0, we hope to
> repurpose the brief cataloging form that was developed for acquisitions
> for this purpose so that circ staff can create the record directly in
> most cases.
>
> 4. On a regular basis, a cron job pulls the list of public bookbags for
> that user and generates a sqlite database on the server where the little
> reserves app runs. A PHP script generates the JSON feed that the Dojo
> Javascript app turns into the grid of course reserves.
>
> And... I think that's it.
>
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