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arl-ereserve: Comment on definitions

arl-ereserve: Comment on definitions

Comment on definitions

McAnna@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
Fri, 6 May 94 09:21 CDT 

Message-Id: <9405061421.AA16922@a.cni.org>
Date: Fri, 6 May 94 09:21 CDT
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org
From: McAnna@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Comment on definitions


John K. and list,

One addition to John's definition of traditional reserves--this is 
certainly implicit in his definition, but perhaps should be explicit, 
since new models for access are so important a feature of electronic 
reserves: traditional reserves are most commonly kept in closed stacks 
and some sort of checkout procedure including presentation of ID is 
required to use them. (I do know of some "open reserves" in open stacks, 
so this distinction is meaningful.)

Also, I was interested by Dick Goodram's comment about including a 
booking capability in an fully automated system. This would surely be 
desirable (we get frequent requests to "reserve reserves" from our users), 
but in the traditional reserves environment where users can check items 
out and take them away, it seems to me that it would be hard to guarantee 
to a requestor that a booked item would be available at a given time. Who 
is using this kind of feature, and how well does it work given reserves 
users' occasional resistance to bringing back the materials on time?

- Suzanne McAnna, UT/Austin (mcanna@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu)

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