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Implementing And Surviving A Free Local Document Delivery Service, Amy Paulus
Implementing And Surviving A Free Local Document Delivery Service, Amy Paulus
Amy R Paulus
The University of Iowa Libraries implemented a free document delivery service on July 1, 2007. We combined four separate document delivery services into one free service and used the ILLiad software to process and track all of these requests. All University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students can now request any material held locally through this service and will be provided a scanned PDF copy that is posted on the web via ILLiad. Since the University of Iowa Libraries consists of the Main Library, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and nine branch libraries, the coordination of staff and resources …
Shrinking Service Points To Better Serve Users (And Save Money), Amy R. Paulus
Shrinking Service Points To Better Serve Users (And Save Money), Amy R. Paulus
Amy R Paulus
In 2009, the University of Iowa Libraries began to implement significant changes to services as a direct result of budget reductions. This session will describe the process of combining 2 major and 2 minor service points in the Main library and how services have changed, one year later. While our users have adapted to this one service point, this change has had its own challenges and accomplishments so come to this session to learn pointers on how to merge successfully or share your own success stories!
International Interlibrary Lending And Borrowing: Getting Started And Moving Forward, Amy R. Paulus
International Interlibrary Lending And Borrowing: Getting Started And Moving Forward, Amy R. Paulus
Amy R Paulus
A panel of interlibrary loan (ILL) practitioners from institutions experienced in international ILL will discuss how they have overcome problems encountered with international lending and borrowing using strategies applicable to all types and sizes of institutions. Panelists will discuss citation verification, lending library identification, copyright, customs, payment, shipping and language barriers.
Promoting Use Of Link Resolvers For Faster Delivery, Amy R. Paulus
Promoting Use Of Link Resolvers For Faster Delivery, Amy R. Paulus
Amy R Paulus
Learn how ILLiad can be used to find requests from users citing databases but not connecting through our link resolver (SFX) to submit an interlibrary loan request. With this information, users can be contacted so that future requesting can be done more efficiently and faster. Things to learn: How to do advanced searching in ILLiad as well as learn about different ways to educate users about interlibrary loan service via a faster and more accurate mechanism – the link resolver. OCLC Knowledge Base and direct requesting will also be discussed.
Ready To Stream? Investigating Offering Online Video Content For Courses, Amy Paulus
Ready To Stream? Investigating Offering Online Video Content For Courses, Amy Paulus
Amy R Paulus
In January 2012, the University of Iowa Main Library piloted a service of streaming media content for videos used in classes by working with 7 different instructors and procuring 74 video titles. All areas of the library were involved in this process: acquisitions, collection development, library information technology, cataloging, and course reserves. This presentation will focus on what is needed to implement this service, an analysis of our pilot service, and our future plans.
Alternatives To Traditional Interlibrary Loan Borrowing, Amy Paulus
Alternatives To Traditional Interlibrary Loan Borrowing, Amy Paulus
Amy R Paulus
The average cost of a borrowing interlibrary loan transaction is $17.50, according to the ARL study done in 2002. It can be argued that this money could be spent to result in something more tangible at the end of the transaction. This presentation will discuss some of the alternatives to obtaining material not owned by your library for your patrons by using methods other than traditional interlibrary loan. Purchasing the book for addition to your collection is becoming more widespread and they are several ways this can be done: taking advantage of vendors such as Alibris to purchase via OCLC; …
Local Holdings Maintenance In Oclc: How Cataloging Practices Can Benefit Interlibrary Loan, Amy R. Paulus
Local Holdings Maintenance In Oclc: How Cataloging Practices Can Benefit Interlibrary Loan, Amy R. Paulus
Amy R Paulus
Filtering and auto-deflection are OCLC capabilities that have been available although perhaps not well used yet in the interlibrary loan community. The University of Iowa have identified several collections that do not circulate and edit these cataloging records individually to filter requests, since the policy directory can not be used to deflect these. These collections include the Iowa Woman’s Archives collection, the Roxburghe Collection in Special Collections, and the permanent reserve collection of videos. Interlibrary Loan staff members are responsible for the creation and maintenance of these records. Local holdings records for serials are also created and maintained by ILL …