[Web4lib] As the manager of the electronic reserves program at my

Francis Kayiwa kayiwa at uic.edu
Thu Aug 17 12:04:55 EDT 2006


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On Aug 16, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Ross Singer wrote:

> I feel like I need to step up and promote ReservesDirect at this
> point.  At Emory, we started ReservesDirect after sitting through an
> ERes demo and being overwhelmed with disappointment at how...
> underwhelming it was.
>
> It doesn't integrate well with other library services (course
> management notwithstanding).
>
> It doesn't integrate well with the OPAC and either forces an awkward
> divide between 'print reserves' and 'ereserves' or awkwardly places
> the ereserves in the course listing.
>
> It's difficult to customize to make it look like it look seamless to
> the rest of your website.
>
> It's cheap, yes, but I wouldn't call it "worth it", and I say this
> from an institution that currently uses ERes (much to my chagrin).
>
> Check it out, they've even got a movie:
> http://www.reservesdirect.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> And, hey, "free" is cheaper than "cheap".

KEEN! From this current (possibly former) ERes User.

The folks at Emory might want to change the spelling of Sidney (sic)  
to Sydney. :-)

regards,
./fxk
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