{"id":550,"date":"2007-05-04T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2007-05-04T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:28:14","slug":"electronic-reserves-and-open-source-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2007\/05\/04\/electronic-reserves-and-open-source-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Reserves and Open Source Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our library is currently investigating implementation of an electronic reserves system, in tandem with other academic libraries in the area.  My involvement in the decision is one of my summer &#8220;Library Intern&#8221; projects.<\/p>\n<p>Next week we get to demo two major ER systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OCLC Illiad, Atlas Systems, Inc.: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlas-sys.com\/products\/ares\/\">Ares System<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SirsiDynix, Docutek: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docutek.com\/products\/eres\/index.html\">ERes Electronic Reserves System<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m a creature of the open source generation, it also behooved me to search out some OSS options, which revealed namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GMUtant Software&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lso.gmu.edu\/OSCR\/features.html\">OSCR<\/a>; and, <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reservesdirect.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Documentation:_About_ReservesDirect\">ReservesDirect<\/a>, which was originally developed by Emory University and just went open source last December.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has any experience with any of these systems, I&#8217;d sure love to hear your thoughts!  I&#8217;m e-attending a presentation on Ares and ERes next Tuesday, so I&#8217;ll have a better starting point to compare after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our library is currently investigating implementation of an electronic reserves system, in tandem with other academic libraries in the area. My involvement in the decision is one of my summer &#8220;Library Intern&#8221; projects. Next week we get to demo two major ER systems: OCLC Illiad, Atlas Systems, Inc.: Ares System SirsiDynix, Docutek: ERes Electronic Reserves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}