[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

[Cynthia Williamson]

Hi All - we use Evergreen's booking module to reserve videos and DVDs for
specific dates and times for instructors' classroom use. We worked with the
folks at Equinox to build it. It works just fine for our purposes.
It will probably need some tweaking for equipment booking. One thing we
didn't have the time (or funds) to do is add an overview calendar that would
let you see when a piece of equipment, resource, room etc. is already booked
- something like that would be a major improvement.  Also, for our purposes,
there was no need to be able to enter a location where the booked item would
be used - we just sign things out to the instructor and they return them.
If you're actually delivering equipment and people aren't just picking it up
or just to better track where things are, you'll probably want a few more
details in the "reservation form".
Hope that helps a bit, if I can answer any more questions just let me know.

Cynthia
Mohawk College
Hamilton ON

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Michael Ambrosino <mambrosino at pnca.edu>wrote:

> Tara,
>
> Our Media Resource Center (or commonly called "The Cage") currently
> supports a home grown solution that allows for AV checkout, inventory and
> reservation services. The service allows students and faculty to reserve an
> checkout a wide variety of cameras, AV carts, cables, lights and computer
> equipment. The idea of using Evergreen is that we could collapse the service
> into a Library services mechanisms.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael Ambrosino
> Director of Information Technology
> 503-821-8956 | Office
> 503-226-3587 | Fax
> PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art
> 1241 NW Johnson St | Portland | Oregon | 97209
> mambrosino at pnca.edu
> www.pnca.edu
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> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Tara Robertson <
> information.detective at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I'm also at an art school, but I'm not familiar with Media Resource
>> management software. What is it used for? What kind of functionality is
>> necessary?
>>
>> You mentioned "equipment reservation" so I'm guessing it's partially where
>> faculty or students can book a piece of equipment or a DVD for a specific
>> time in the future? Evergreen has a bookings module. I haven't used it in
>> production but I've played around with it and it looks like it'll meet our
>> needs for booking specific media items for screenings. Our AV department is
>> seperate from the library and has their own system. Once we're live on
>> Evergreen and things have settled down, I plan on chatting with them to see
>> if they can also use Evergreen to book and circulate AV equipment.
>>
>> Exciting to see other art and design schools considering Evergreen!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tara Robertson
>> Emily Carr University of Art + Design
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Ambrosino <mambrosino at pnca.edu>wrote:
>>
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> PNCA is currently looking or a replacement for our home-grown Media
>>> Resource management software. The tool is eight years old and requires a
>>> complete re-write to stay relevant and scale to the level of growth we're
>>> experiencing without our Media Resource Center.
>>>
>>> Has anyone adopted Evergreen as a Media Resource tool? If so we'd love to
>>> see how it's adapted to the challenge of equipment reservation and checkout
>>> routines.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Michael Ambrosino
>>> Director of Information Technology
>>> 503-821-8956 | Office
>>> 503-226-3587 | Fax
>>> PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art
>>> 1241 NW Johnson St | Portland | Oregon | 97209
>>> mambrosino at pnca.edu
>>> www.pnca.edu
>>>
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>>> education.
>>> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Cynthia
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