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I'm probably late in responding to this post, but better late than never. At Hennepin County Library (serving the Minneapolis, MN suburbs), we developed an in-house reservation system using ColdFusion for our book club kits that is loosely tied to the ILS. The need for this arouse because the book club kits need to be reserved for specific times in the future. So the application allows the user to search for a kit, view its availability (two years out), and then reserve the kit for a future time period. If the user is not picky about which specific kit they want, there is also a feature that allows the user to select the date they want to pick up the kit and then view all kits that match that criteria. The reservation system does not place the reserve through the ILS directly, nor can the general title record for the book club kits have reserves placed on them through the ILS. But for circulation purposes, when a kit is ready to be shipped off to the customer, a reserve is automatically placed on the ILS record (through a script that runs overnight). This reservation system has since been applied to accommodate several other in-house reservation systems. For a look at how this works for the public, using the book club kits, go to: http://www.hclib.org/pub/books/bookclubkit/. On the right side of the page choose a link under Reserve a Kit. --------------------------------------------------- Ryan Paetznick [log in to unmask] Web Services http://www.hclib.org Hennepin County Library 952-847-8543 12601 Ridgedale Drive Minnetonka, MN 55305 --------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kristina Long Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 4:58 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] reserves management systems At SFU the reserves requests by profs and the staff processing of those requests is currently a mix of paper and online processes. We are interested in going as paperless as possible and as such are looking for a reserves management system that would handle both electronic items and print items and is integrated in some fashion with our ILS (ie. III). So my question is what open source reserve management systems are available? Two I've found are ReservesDirect which looks promising and OSCR which does not look like it is being developed currently. Is anyone aware of others? I'm looking for software that was developed to handle both print and electronic materials. Kristina -- Kristina Long 604-291-3037 Systems Consultant 604-291-3023 (fax) Library Systems [log in to unmask] Simon Fraser University http://researcher.sfu.ca/