[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Books on Reserve in Evergreen

[Walz, Jennifer]

All –

The other alternative is to do what we have done.   Just change the item / copy record to have a circulation modifier for 1 hour, 2 hour etc and make the coordinating changes in your circulation policies table.   We also changed each item to reside in a new location / collection called Reserves.   I have not been able to find a way to “associate” the items with a course or a professor, but you can certainly make notes on the item to that effect if you want.   We have never needed all that anyway.   We just want to be sure that the items circulate with the correct time frames.  So far we have it working to our satisfaction.

  One problem we have encountered is the due time will often run past our closing time.   Does the system not automatically shorten the due time when it conflicts with the open hours of the OU??     I’d like to know how to make that work.   And maybe flip the due date / time to the next day?

  Anyone have any other ideas / suggestions??  I’d be interested to know if there are other institutions actually having a reserve collection that are using Evergreen.

Thanks!

Jennifer
--------------------------------------------------
Jennifer Walz, MLS - Head of Research & Distance Services
Kinlaw Library -  Asbury University
One Macklem Drive, Wilmore, KY 40390
859-858-3511 ext. 2269
jlwalz at asbury.edu

From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Dan Scott
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:16 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Books on Reserve in Evergreen

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Janice Huber <janice.huber at asburyseminary.edu<mailto:janice.huber at asburyseminary.edu>> wrote:
Can anyone point me in the right direction to figure out how Evergreen handles books on Reserve?
Meaning books placed on a reserve shelf for a professor, for a particular class, for that term to circulate for up to two hours at a time.


Hi Janice:
You might want to start with https://coffeecode.net/archives/250-Current-state-of-academic-reserves-support-for-Evergreen.html
 - although it's a post from 2011, it's still reasonably accurate I think.

Dan
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20150113/140c173b/attachment.htm>