Info about e resource was messy (file cabinets, emails, heads). Sort things out. Spreadsheet. Limitations.
Very flexible. Customizable based on your library’s needs. Licensing module was first released in summer 2010. More modules came after.
Framework, basically the software you need. All open source. MySQL 5: Relational Database Management System. The nature of CORAL is a bunch of relational databases. PhP5: A server-side scripting language designed for web-development. Brings the databases a web interface. Apache: or a picture of a web server?
Four modules: show UConn’s coral landing page: http://coral.lib.uconn.edu/coral/Example: Resource and Organization module: provider linked (Demo, Demo publishing)
Easy to customize. Show admin page, add note types, resource types etc.
RedHat: licensed. Linux server, a type of web server. (Support from the vendor).IT: Networked Services LibrarianDocumentation: online. Each module can be downloaded separately. We installed all four. According to IT, the documentation was not complete, and he had to write to the developer. Not major problems. It took him several hours to install, and the installation succeeded on the first try. I installed all four modules on my own computer. I did a lot of googling and succeeded too.
We have a master list for all our electronic resources. It’s a spreadsheet. Before we did the importing, we matched the resource IDs in CORAL manually. Information imported included. Php Scripts required.
The installation was in spring of 2013. We have been using CORAL since then. Admin: set up by IT during installation?
Who: our Electronic Resources Management Librarian. Can have as many as you want.
Can’t delete a resource, only the admin. Security featuresNothing’s done accidentally
Not much in Organizations moduleShow live demo licensing admin screen, live demo resource admin screenDocumentation
Resource module: most recently added resource type: App.
Licensing module: show live demo admin screenMost recently added qualifier
Show our CORAL licensing screenMost recently added note types: serving as institutional memory. Show search this note type (Demo)User feedback: show search this note type, show attachment.
File upload size: our licensing module. Is IT a must? Yes, that’s something has to be done in PhP. Googling.
Within CORAL: examples: qualifiers, resource types (app), note type (user feedback)IT: file uploading size limit (show live). 2 mb-10 mb
Track multiple year costs. Mock up.
How long does it take for the community to make upgrades and new features?
A very attractive feature to us in the first place, but since we are a new team, there have been lots of adjustments to our work, we are not there yet. This feature is like an electronic flyer. The administrator sets up workflows for each type of resources, and assign each step to a user group (show live demo admin screen). When a task is active, that group will receive an email. When the task is finished, that user/user group marks it as complete, and the next user group will be notified in emails. (show live demo how to set up user group)
This summer. Live since this March. Store license templates, terms tools, etc. The word got out in the CORAL user group meeting at the ER&L conference last month.
Live demo: sandbox, automatically an admin. Explorations. Test things out there.
Maintain: very little support is needed from IT. Automatic backup daily.Flexible: easy to make changes. can be a stand-alone system or integrated into the newer generation ILS.
CORAL meets our needs! Robust, solid, flexible. More functional.
