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--- course_reserves [2012/10/03 15:20] – created demiankatz
+++ configuration:course_reserves [2023/11/09 18:47] (current) – demiankatz
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 ====== Course Reserves ======
-// Coming soon. //
+Academic libraries often need to list resources held on reserve for particular courses, departments and instructors.  VuFind® supports this need in multiple ways.
+Regardless of how reserves are configured, they can be accessed through the "/Search/Reserves" action beneath your base VuFind® URL.
+===== Driver-Based Reserves (Default) =====
+If your [[development:plugins:ils_drivers|ILS driver]] implements the findReserves() method, VuFind® can load course reserves information in real-time from the ILS.
+===== Solr-Based Reserves =====
+You can configure the software to use a Solr index for course reserves searching instead of the ILS driver.  This offers greater flexibility and a more attractive user interface, but it requires you to periodically reindex your data to keep the system up to date.  To configure:
+.) Edit the [Reserves] section of [[configuration:files:config.ini]] and set search_enabled to true.
+.) Load data into the index by running the util/index_reserves.php tool to extract it from your ILS.  ILS extraction requires support in the [[development:plugins:ils_drivers|ILS driver]].  You can also load data from a CSV file.  See index_reserves.php parameters below for details.
+==== index_reserves.php command-line parameters ====
+You can load data into your Solr reserves index by running the ''util/index_reserves.php'' command. Usage details:
+<code>
+Course reserves index builder
+If run with no options, this will attempt to load data from your ILS.
+Switches may be used to index from delimited files instead:
+ -f [filename] loads a file (may be repeated for multiple files)
+ -d [delimiter] specifies a delimiter (comma is default)
+ -t [template] provides a template showing where important values
+     can be found within the file.  The template is a comma-
+     separated list of values.  Choose from:
+          BIB_ID     - bibliographic ID
+          COURSE     - course name
+          DEPARTMENT - department name
+          INSTRUCTOR - instructor name
+          SKIP       - ignore data in this position
+     Default template is BIB_ID,COURSE,INSTRUCTOR,DEPARTMENT
+ -h or -? display this help information.
+</code>
+==== Multiple reserve Solr cores ====
+Starting with VuFind® 9.0, if your Solr installation has more than one core for reserves (for instance, your Solr service is used by more than one VuFind® installation), you can change the name of the reserves core by customizing the [Index] section of reserves.ini. For earlier versions of VuFind®, customizing the core name required you to override the factory of the SolrReserves search backend.
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