Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

2011-04-13 Thread Tara Robertson
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

2011-04-13 Thread Dan Scott
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:54:06PM -0700, Michael Ambrosino 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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

2011-04-13 Thread Michael Ambrosino
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

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

2011-04-13 Thread Cynthia Williamson
Hi All - we use Evergreen's booking module to reserve videos and DVDs for specific dates and times for instructors' classroom use. We worked with the folks at Equinox to build it. It works just fine for our purposes. It will probably need some tweaking for equipment booking. One thing we didn't

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen as Media Resource Management Tool?

2011-04-12 Thread Michael Ambrosino
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