[ILL-L] Ariel email

[Joe Ellison]

>
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>
>I'm looking into sending out article using Ariel email, but 
>libraries would receive them as TIF attachments instead of PDF 
>attachments. Do most people have TIF readers on their terminals? Do 
>most students? thanks,
>
>
>Edward Helmrich
>ILL Office
>Ryan Library
>Iona College
>914-633-2352
>docdelivery at iona.edu
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If you use Ariel's Send function using the receiving library's Ariel 
email address, rather than the Send to Patron function, the articles 
will be received into Ariel, not as attachments. The receiving 
library can then process the files however works best for them--print 
and give to patron, use patron delivery to send as either TIF or PDF 
attachement, use patron delivery to post to server, use the article 
functions within ILLIAD, use Prospero to get the copies to patrons, etc.

If you use Ariel's Send to Patron function to send to other 
libraries, you can set it to send as PDF or as TIF. The article will 
then be received as a regular email attachment, not into the 
receiving library's Ariel receipt queue, so don't use this option to 
send to an Ariel email address.

That said, anyone with a current computer operating system has a TIF 
viewer built in. In Windows it's the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, 
in Mac OS X (any version) it's Apple Preview. There are others 
available but these two are built into the operating systems.


Joe Ellison
Document Delivery Assistant, Transportation Library (OCLC symbol JCR)
Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL  60208-2300
phone: (847)491-8600, fax: (847)491-8601
j-ellison at northwestern.edu
ARIEL: 129.105.19.35 or staff019035.library.northwestern.edu
Visit the Transportation Library: 
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation