[ILL-L] Posting electronic documents to web server

[Document Delivery]

We haven't set ours up yet but I think I'm going to have to. It seems more cumbersome, a little, for patrons, but we get articles that other libraries have greyscaled, even though they are just text, and the files are too large to send over email, so we have to print them out and rescan them. So, we'd like to have this option for these large files.
 
Ed Helmrich
Iona College

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Nathan Hosburgh
Sent: Thu 7/16/2009 8:53 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: [ILL-L] Posting electronic documents to web server



Hi everyone,

 

I know that some libraries will post electronic documents on a secure web server when they are ready for "pickup" vs. emailing those documents directly on to the patron.  I've heard of a couple reasons for this practice, but I wanted to poll the group and hear firsthand why individual libraries are opting for this method.  Please feel free to respond off-list if that suits you.

 

Thanks,

 

Nathan Hosburgh

Evans Library 

Florida Institute of Technology

150 W. University Blvd.

Melbourne, FL 32901

(321) 674-8955

nhosburg at fit.edu

 

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