Setting Up Course Reserves

Your Polaris system may include course reserve functions to serve an academic community. With these features, you can place materials on reserve for use in a class during a semester or term. Reserve materials can be drawn from the regular collection, instructors may bring in personal material to be placed on reserve, or the materials may be temporary items such as photocopies. Course reserve records store information about the courses for which items are placed on reserve.

Polaris handles the reserved items through reserve item “records,” which are views of Polaris item records for materials placed on reserve. The reserve item record carries its own circulation parameters, which may be different from those in effect if an item is taken off reserve and returned to the circulating collection. Circulation statistics for reserve items are also kept separately. Staff and patrons can search for reserve materials from the staff client and the PAC.

In Polaris Administration, you set up course reserve data tables that supply the options for fields such as course name, school, department, and term dates in the course reserve record. Additional course reserve parameters enable course reserve functions, and control the default settings for reserve item records.

Note:
Polaris course reserve functions are available by specific contract. If your Polaris installation does not include Polaris course reserves, the features described in this unit are not available.