What about linking them to an e-book on the school's server? We are only getting a few copies of a particular book, and each may only be checked out by one person at a time. Or if that wouldn't work, what about linking them to an e-book on the school's Web site? Thanks! Trying to circulate e-books is all new to me. Amber Amber Amland Librarian Mountainview International Christian School www.mountainviewics.org library@mountainviewics.org From: loriayre@gmail.com [mailto:loriayre@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Lori Bowen Ayre Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 8:25 AM To: Amber Amland Cc: Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] E-book Check Out How are you delivering the ebook to the student? How you set it up in Koha depends on whether you are using an ebook vendor, or linking them to a free ebook on the web, or..... Lori On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Amber Amland <library@mountainviewics.org> wrote: Has anyone done anything with e-book check out on Koha? One of the teachers at my school would like to make an e-book available for students to check out on their own. Can a patron log in to the Koha catalog and check out an e-book himself? If so, how do I set this up? We're using Koha version 3.06 on Linux. Thank you! Amber Amber Amland Librarian Mountainview International Christian School www.mountainviewics.org library@mountainviewics.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha

Salvete!

Linking to them isn't the problem.  You can use the 856 field for the URL (I think that's right) so they  can link directly to it from the catalog. The trick is controlling the circs.  Usually this is done by the vendor that sold you the ebook.  Am I right, folks?

    If the teacher's book is in the public domain, then there really isn't any reason to keep things under lock and key. You can just catalogue it as normal and have the URL in the item's record if you're not obsessed with circ stats.     You are correct that you can just link things up in this fashion through the 856u in MARC21.     If you wanted to annoy your patrons in the name of statistics, you could always run the url to a passthrough site and collect the number of page hits. Not perfect, of course.     If you really want to do a good job of making their tiny lives miserable, I'd recommend setting up a separate item type, and possibly even a separate user type. You could set up the web based self checkout stuff, which is probably overkill, but hey, who knows? http://www.web2learning.net/archives/5412 Hope this helped, Brooke