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Course Reserves
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 ILS driver implements the findReserves() method, VuFind can load course reserves information in real-time from the ILS.
Solr-Based Reserves
Starting with VuFind 1.3, 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. To configure:
1.) Edit the [Reserves] section of config.ini and set search_enabled to true.
2.) Turn on the reserves Solr core by editing solr/solr.xml to uncomment the appropriate line and then restarting Solr.
3.) 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 ILS driver. In case this is not possible, a patch exists to load from a spreadsheet file instead – see VUFIND-582. This feature will eventually be incorporated into a future official VuFind release.