SV: [ILL-L] Distance Learning Services - logistics

[Poul Erlandsen]

Nathan,
 
This is exactly what we're doing. Our distance learners are all being put into a user category as our ILS is allowing to allocate individual rights to each category of users. This means that when a distance learner logs into the OPAC and places a hold on an item that is available on the shelf then the system will indicate on the pick list that this item must be shipped free of charge to that patron.
 
If a user in another category - for example a patron with a local zip cope - places a hold on an available item a pop up form will appear on the screen where the user may select pick up in the library (no charge) og ship by mail to home address (for a fee).
 
This works extremely well and should be a feature in any ILS but probably isn't. Our system is called DDE Libra (Danish).
 
Hope this helps!
 
Best regards,
 
Poul Erlandsen
Afdelingsleder / Head of Dept.
Danmarks Pædagogiske Bibliotek / National Library of Education
PB 840 / PO Box 840
2400 København NV / DK-2400 Copenhagen NV
Danmark / Denmark
 
E-mail poer at dpu.dk
Tlf 88 88 93 06 / Phone +45 88 88 93 06
Mobil 26 30 66 78 / Cell +45 26 30 66 78
Fax 88 88 93 92 / Fax +45 88 88 93 92
 
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing entirely straight can be built."
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Akademische Ausgabe

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Emne: [ILL-L] Distance Learning Services - logistics



Apologies for cross-posting:

 

We are on the cusp of offering services to our growing distance learning community which will mostly likely include Document Delivery of both copies of articles held in our print journal collection as well as books from our own collection.  The way that most libraries seem to accomplish this is by having the distance patrons either: fill out a blank form with all of their personal data as well as the bibliographic data ex. http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/forms/checkout.html , OR send an email with this same data straight to a library or staff email address ex. http://library.uncfsu.edu/distance_learners.htm.

 

I see problems in being inundated with emails containing incomplete data, particularly with the direct email method.  Secondly, I would like to create a process that is more automated, particularly on the user's side.  If they are already in the OPAC and they have been authenticated by the university system, then the ability to harvest their personal data as well as the bibliographic info from the book would be the optimal solution.  For instance, when a patron wants to put a HOLD on a book in our OPAC, the patron info and bib info is sent directly in an email to a specific staff person.  This is the same sort of thing I would like to accomplish, only with a "Distance Learner Checkout Request".  We are using SIRSI.  I've started talking to our system folks here and they are unsure if this is possible.  

 

Are any of you out there accomplishing a more automated process with this kind of thing (using SIRSI or some other ILS), or am I simply dreaming beyond hope?  If there is a mailing list out there more specifically tailored to Distance Learning matters, please let me know.

 

Thank you,   

 

Nathan Hosburgh

Document Delivery Librarian

Evans Library 

Florida Institute of Technology

150 W. University Blvd.

Melbourne, FL 32901

(321) 674-7540

nhosburg at fit.edu

 

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