Tara, Our Media Resource Center (or commonly called "The Cage") currently supports a home grown solution that allows for AV checkout, inventory and reservation services. The service allows students and faculty to reserve an checkout a wide variety of cameras, AV carts, cables, lights and computer equipment. The idea of using Evergreen is that we could collapse the service into a Library services mechanisms.
Sincerely, Michael Ambrosino Director of Information Technology 503-821-8956 | Office 503-226-3587 | Fax PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art 1241 NW Johnson St | Portland | Oregon | 97209 mambros...@pnca.edu www.pnca.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNCA connecting students to the world through fine art and design education. Please consider the environment before printing this email. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Tara Robertson < information.detect...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I'm also at an art school, but I'm not familiar with Media Resource > management software. What is it used for? What kind of functionality is > necessary? > > You mentioned "equipment reservation" so I'm guessing it's partially where > faculty or students can book a piece of equipment or a DVD for a specific > time in the future? Evergreen has a bookings module. I haven't used it in > production but I've played around with it and it looks like it'll meet our > needs for booking specific media items for screenings. Our AV department is > seperate from the library and has their own system. Once we're live on > Evergreen and things have settled down, I plan on chatting with them to see > if they can also use Evergreen to book and circulate AV equipment. > > Exciting to see other art and design schools considering Evergreen! > > Cheers, > Tara Robertson > Emily Carr University of Art + Design > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Michael Ambrosino <mambros...@pnca.edu>wrote: > >> Colleagues, >> >> PNCA is currently looking or a replacement for our home-grown Media >> Resource management software. The tool is eight years old and requires a >> complete re-write to stay relevant and scale to the level of growth we're >> experiencing without our Media Resource Center. >> >> Has anyone adopted Evergreen as a Media Resource tool? If so we'd love to >> see how it's adapted to the challenge of equipment reservation and checkout >> routines. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Michael Ambrosino >> Director of Information Technology >> 503-821-8956 | Office >> 503-226-3587 | Fax >> PNCA | Pacific Northwest College of Art >> 1241 NW Johnson St | Portland | Oregon | 97209 >> mambros...@pnca.edu >> www.pnca.edu >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> PNCA connecting students to the world through fine art and design >> education. >> Please consider the environment before printing this email. >> > >