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arl-ereserve: Re: Comment on definitions

arl-ereserve: Re: Comment on definitions

Re: Comment on definitions

Annette E Dawes (ulaed@dewey.newcastle.edu.au)
Mon, 23 May 1994 10:59:16 +1000 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 10:59:16 +1000 (EST)
From: Annette E Dawes <ulaed@dewey.newcastle.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Comment on definitions
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <9405061421.AA16922@a.cni.org>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9405192132.A27153-0100000@dewey.newcastle.edu.au>


Dear Colleagues,

At the University of Newcastle we have an automated system for Short 
Loans..ie all the books and articles are to be found in the OPAC by 
doing a title search or by searching under their professor, course 
title or course code and we are also an Open Reserve.  If students 
wish to borrow, they present the item/s they require and their ID and 
we check out the item to them but if they only want to photocopy they 
do it in the area, as we provide 9 copiers for their use.  We also use 
a booking module which enables our patrons to have their required items 
available at a time that is of convenience to them, provided that no one 
else has booked that item previously. If someone wishes to borrow that 
booked item before the booking time, we lend it with a time due one 
minute earlier than the booked time.  All bookings are cancelled if not 
picked up within 10 minutes of the booked time, and they are due 2 hours 
after that booking time regardless of when the patron borrows them. We 
have a security gate on the Short Loans (Open Reserve) area and all our 
items are taped to discourage theft. We have some mutilation, but there 
doesn't seem to have been an increase since we changed from a closed 
reserve to an open reserve. 

Does this help?


Regards,

Annette.
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Annette Dawes                      | Internet: ulaed@dewey.newcastle.edu.au
Lending Services, Auchmuty Library | Ph  (intl+61+49) 215849
University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833



On Fri, 6 May 1994 McAnna@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu wrote:
> 
> 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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