[ILL-L] Ariel versus E-Mail

[Doyle, John (NIH/NLM) [E]]

That's discouraging to hear - I would have thought that modern institutional email, never mind the free webmail services available, would have ample storage capacity these days.  You might try to find a way to import the PDFs directly to your webserver in these cases - either through ILLiad or other means.

Regards,
John


John P. Doyle
Head, Systems Unit
Collection Access Section
National Library of Medicine
doylejo at mail.nlm.nih.gov
tel. 301-496-4003 


  


From: Phillips, Connie [mailto:cphillip at mansfield.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:42 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Ariel versus E-Mail

We also have problems with emailed PDF's as our students have smaller email accounts. Often I have to print the PDF's, scan and then send through Ariel, retrieve them through ILLiad to put out on our server for our patrons to receive the larger PDF articles.

Connie



Connie Phillips
Mansfield University
North Hall Library
Interlibrary Loan Supervisor
5 Swan Street
Mansfield, PA 16933

Phone# 570-662-4683
FAX# 570-662-4993
cphillip at mansfield.edu

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Zettwoch, Mary B.
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:43 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Ariel versus E-Mail

We would have problems with just e-mail since our patrons sometimes don't have big enough e-mails to handle the PDF, hence sending through the Ariel. 

Mary Zettwoch
Head, Interlibrary Loan
University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMS)
Thomas Jefferson Library
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO  63121-4499   U.S.A.
(314)-516-5082, fax (314)-516-5853
zettwoch at umsl.edu    ariel IP: 134.124.92.69

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rutz, Verna
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:35 AM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] Ariel versus E-Mail

At our library, we're seeing a shift from heavy usage of Ariel to e-mailed PDFs, both sending and receiving.   In fact, due to the very slow functioning of our Ariel scanner, all outgoing items are being sent by e-mail.  (With a copyright cover letter, but without the cover page indicating the patron, since e-mail isn't secure.) 

Additionally, we find that we need to re-situate our Ariel system and wonder if it's worth the cost to do so.  Our IT people say that the future is web-based and perhaps Ariel may not be as effective as it once was.

Our library director is curious what other libraries are doing in this regard, and we were unable to find anything in the archives that addressed the issue.  Hence, this e-mail...


Verna Rutz
Interlibrary Loan Assistant
Rockhurst University/Greenlease Library (MZ4 and MOUFHD)
816-501-4121