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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hi All,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; ">It would be great to see a 'Course Reserve' (or 'Reserve Bookroom') module in the next release of Koha.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">In our previous ILS, we utilised a Course Reserve module and since migrating to Koha have lost that functionality.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The following has nothing to do with the subject of this email, but I thought I would add it anyway.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">In our libraries, we also have a Collection in Koha called: eReserve</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Therefore, you will get:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Physical Text (Book) - Collection: Reserve</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">eBook - Collection: eReserve</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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.)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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@hotmail.com.au.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Kindest Regards,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Joel</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16pt; "><b>Joel Harbottle</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002060" face="Garamond" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Email: Joel.Harbottle@hotmail.com.au </span></font></div><br><hr><br>> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:09:45 -0500<br>> From: oleonard@myacpl.org<br>> To: superjojo1000@gmail.com<br>> CC: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>> Subject: Re: [Koha] Course Reserves Modules<br>> <br>> > i'm using version 3.2 , i can't found Course Reserves services in this<br>> > version<br>> <br>> Koha 3.2 does not have course reserves.<br>> <br>> > cause i'm<br>> > founded this services in just harley edition , how i can add that ...<br>> <br>> Harley is a fork of Koha, a version of Koha based on some fairly old<br>> code. Although the Harley code was released to the public by PTFS,<br>> PTFS has not worked to integrate the course reserves into the official<br>> version of Koha yet.<br>> <br>> It's still possible they will do so for Koha 3.4, but we'll have to<br>> wait and see.<br>> <br>> -- Owen<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Web Developer<br>> Athens County Public Libraries<br>> http://www.myacpl.org<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org<br>> Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<br>> http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha<br> </body>
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