Course Reserves

(this is only physical course reserves and things in The Cat. We also have Springshare, which we should link to from the Course Reserves page, but are not included in this at this point)

If off-campus, our course reserves are behind an auth.

Function

We will want something very similar to what Stanford currently has (theirs comes from Sirsi as well). For each instance of a course, we will want to have a record with the course number, the description, and the faculty member's name. This will be searchable and will display in a list ordered by course number (and/or faculty member's name?).

Behaviors:

• Selecting a course will take you to a list of records for items currently on course reserve for that course.
• Viewing a record which has at least one item currently on course reserve will display some kind of course reserve link as well as the normal availability

We will also want to replace the form for placing items on Course Reserves: https://libraries.psu.edu/psulib_eres/bookres

Current Nature of Course Reserves

We have two kinds of thing which go on course reserve. The first is existing records, when we already have something, with a full bib record (or purchase the item but get the full bib record), and then put one or more copies on reserve. The second are brief title records, which include title/author/maybe some notes. These are created for items which are specifically added to the catalog to be put on course reserve. They generally are shadowed.

Structure:

• we have separate records for course reserves, which have course ID, course description, and course instructor.
• items are linked to these courses in a different module, there's nothing in the 949, other than that the location would be reserve.
• the item ID appears to be the best field for cross-reference.