[Koha-devel] What's the current state of Course Reserves?

[Kyle Hall]

Thanks for the update. Is there an RFC on the wiki for course
reserves? That may be a good start if there isn't one.

Kyle

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Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )




On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ian Walls
<ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
> Kyle,
>
>
> Hourly Loans is moving forward, and once complete will open the door for
> Course Reserves, but Course Reserves itself is not fully spec'ed out and
> ready to begin.  There are different ways to implement it, and I'm not sure
> which is best.
>
> My thinking is that putting an item on course reserve is really just
> changing some detail about it temporarily (like it's item type or collection
> code).  In this way, it's like rotating collections.  But there is another
> element that needs to be taken into account, and that's searching by
> Course/Professor and the like.  The data structure of this additional
> metadata should be easily mappable to all the major courseware systems out
> there currently, or at least follow some kind of agreed-upon standard (there
> may be something in MARC21 already...).
>
> We've also got to ask, should search for Course Reserves be integrated into
> normal searching, or use a separate system like Tagging does?
>
> I don't know the best answers; I throw this open to the great minds of the
> community.
>
>
> -Ian
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>  Some months ago there was talk on the list about adding course
>> reserves to Koha. I was just wondering if there was anyone actively
>> developing this feature. I know that support for hourly loans is
>> needed first, and that there is an RFC on the koha community wiki
>> written by Ian. Is this feature in active development, or has it
>> stalled?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kyle
>>
>> http://www.kylehall.info
>> Mill Run Technology Solutions ( http://millruntech.com )
>> Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )
>> Meadville Public Library ( http://www.meadvillelibrary.org )
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