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 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 ) On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Ian Walls <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 ) >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> website : http://www.koha-community.org/ >> git : http://git.koha-community.org/ >> bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > > > -- > Ian Walls > Lead Development Specialist > ByWater Solutions > ALA Booth 732 > Phone # (888) 900-8944 > http://bywatersolutions.com > [email protected] > Twitter: @sekjal > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
