[Koha] Course Reserves Modules

[Joel Harbottle]

Hi All,
It would be great to see a 'Course Reserve' (or 'Reserve Bookroom') module in the next release of Koha.
In our previous ILS, we utilised a Course Reserve module and since migrating to Koha have lost that functionality.
At present, to get some sort of functionality which resembles a Course Reserve module for our libraries, I created a new Collection for each Library in Koha called: Reserve
If someone wants to put an item on a Reserve we just go into the particular items Holdings Record in Koha and change the Collection from its current collection (e.g. Non-Fiction) to Reserve.
The following has nothing to do with the subject of this email, but I thought I would add it anyway.
In our libraries, we also have a Collection in Koha called: eReserve
With this collection when we catalogue eBooks, if we hold the physical text of the item in our Reserve collection we will put the eBook in eReserve.
Therefore, you will get:
Physical Text (Book) - Collection: ReserveeBook - Collection: eReserve
Also, we put in our eReserve collection PDF scans of particular chapters of high use material. This PDF document is stored on a central server for all libraries, and a short Bibliographic record and generic Holdings Record created for it in Koha, with the link to the document. - (Note, because of Copyright Law's we don't allow our patrons to save any copies of this PDF document.)
I just thought I would put that out there. - If you are interested in further details about our generic Reserve and eReserve collections in Koha, or further details about how we operate eReserve, feel free to contact myself off list at: Joel.Harbottle at hotmail.com.au.

Kindest Regards,Joel

Joel HarbottleEmail: Joel.Harbottle at hotmail.com.au 

> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:09:45 -0500
> From: oleonard at myacpl.org
> To: superjojo1000 at gmail.com
> CC: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Course Reserves Modules
> 
> > i'm using version 3.2 , i can't found  Course Reserves services in this
> > version
> 
> Koha 3.2 does not have course reserves.
> 
> > cause i'm
> > founded this services in just harley edition , how i can add that ...
> 
> Harley is a fork of Koha, a version of Koha based on some fairly old
> code. Although the Harley code was released to the public by PTFS,
> PTFS has not worked to integrate the course reserves into the official
> version of Koha yet.
> 
> It's still possible they will do so for Koha 3.4, but we'll have to
> wait and see.
> 
>   -- Owen
> 
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