[ILL-L] Emailing articles

[Laura Barnard]

We tried a dozen different ways to print out full page requests, trying to reduce them to half page.  We gave it up and acquired a print "tool" (called the J-Tool) which allows us to customize the printout - to any size, printing whatever fields of information we choose and putting them wherever we want them on the page, and excluding whatever we don't want.  

We have programmed the J-tool to print one way for borrowing requests and one way for lending requests.  The lending print will include citation information if those fields have anything in them and print out the email field as well, triggered, I believe, by whether there is anything in the article field.  

Laura

Laura Barnard
Interlibrary Loans
Seattle Public Library (UOK)
206-386-4601
ill at spl.org

>>> Joe Ellison <j-ellison at northwestern.edu> 10/23/2007 9:46 AM >>>
Regarding one-page printouts--I find I can almost always get a 
one-page printout of the full request format with a scanable barcode 
using Firefox with the page setup set to print with 80% reduction 
(the reduction setting is critical to getting that scanable barcode) 
or using Internet Explorer with text size set to smallest. I still 
don't understand why OCLC can't program a plain text single-page 
output that will include all the request fields with no truncation, 
as was available in Passport, but perhaps there's some quirk to the 
formatting that I don't understand.

That said, you shouldn't need to look up Ariel addresses every time 
if they're saved in the Ariel address book. I use the OCLC code (and 
assume most others do the same) as the alias, so the only problematic 
ones are those with multiple Ariel addresses under one code (e.g., 
when multiple libraries share a single OCLC code, or when a single 
library maintains multiple Ariel installations) and those with 
invalid characters in their OCLC code (e.g., those that include the @ 
symbol, which I simply spell out as at in the alias). As long as you 
use take a systematic approach to coding those exceptions there is 
still rarely any need to look up either codes or addresses.

Joe Ellison

At 11:07 AM 10/23/2007, you wrote:
><snip>On pet peeve soapbox again - we need a one-page printout and so use the
>smaller OCLC printout.  On many of those printouts, the ARIEL address
>either does not show or is truncated (OCLC, you should be able to make a
>decent one page printout!).  I do not take the time, in these cases, to
>look up the ARIEL address if there is a good e-mail address showing.
>
>Dorothy Kalahan
>Interlibrary Loan
>University of Connecticut Health Center Library
>kalahan at nso.uchc.edu 
>OCLC: UCH      Docline:CTUCON
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Joe Ellison
Document Delivery Assistant, Transportation Library (OCLC symbol JCR)
Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL  60208-2300
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j-ellison at northwestern.edu 
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