Managing Course Reserves in Vubis Smart / V-smart
New functionality in Vubis Smart and V-smart now enables academic libraries to easily manage their course reserves. With Reserve Book Room (RBR) educational institutions can place required course items (books, photocopies, electronic links...) on reserve while applying distinctive circulation rules such as shorter loan periods.
The RBR functionality has been fully integrated within Vubis Smart / V-smart and takes advantage of the systems' flexible database formats and extensive indexing capabilities. Staff can create authorized course and instructor records, create course records by semester with 1 or more instructors per course, and move items into or out of RBR individually or in batch (as an automated process). In the Web OPAC, users can then search on any indexed data element, including (but not limited to) course name, instructor, department, notes, course term, etc.
Central to RBR is the support of a broad e-learning environment. Instructors may define specific reading lists (private or shared with access and edit permissions) and link these to the course descriptions in the Web OPAC. RBR also supports links to external or 3rd party resources such as Virtual Learning Environments (i.e. Sakai, Moodle) and electronic resources (e.g. course outlines in PDF, Word, etc).
For more information about RBR, contact your account representative.
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