Equipment Checkout Software that Handles Pools

Has anyone purchased a software package or written something
to handle their equipment checkout?  At UW-Eau Claire we
circulate laptops, digital cameras, and video cameras as
well as rooms,  and need a product which can handle varying
borrowing periods and online reservations as well as handle
pools of items (we have 100 laptops for rent and want
students to be able to reserve one, but not necessarily
reserve a particular one).  We currently have a homegrown
system which has failed twice in the last month and is no
longer being maintained by the author.  Any ideas would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris.

Christopher Cox
Assistant Director of Libraries
Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
Phone:  (715) 836-4454
Fax:  (715) 836-2949
Email:  coxcnuwec.edu

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Chris,
Why not use your integrated library system?  It circs, it
holds, it 
notifies....why reinvent the wheel? That's what we do at
NCSU.  We 
simply create a bibliographic record for each model device
and then an 
item/barcode record for each item.  In the case of laptops,
we have an 
added entry field which ties the item back to our IT
inventory barcode 
as well so we can keep things in synch.
More details on our lending service are here:

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/learningcommons/devices.html

-Andrew


Cox, Christopher N. wrote:
>
> Has anyone purchased a software package or written
something to handle 
> their equipment checkout?  At UW-Eau Claire we
circulate laptops, 
> digital cameras, and video cameras as well as rooms, 
and need a 
> product which can handle varying borrowing periods and
online 
> reservations as well as handle pools of items (we have
100 laptops for 
> rent and want students to be able to reserve one, but
not necessarily 
> reserve a particular one).  We currently have a
homegrown system which 
> has failed twice in the last month and is no longer
being maintained 
> by the author.  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
>  
>
> Christopher Cox
>
> Assistant Director of Libraries
>
> Editor, Internet Reference Services Quarterly
>
> University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
>
> 105 Garfield Avenue
>
> Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
>
> Phone:  (715) 836-4454
>
> Fax:  (715) 836-2949
>
> Email:  coxcnuwec.edu
>
>  
>

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