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3. Search is customized. Search on journal title has been made possible
through search option. It is now possible to search the requests, processed
and pending.
4. New options. PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons are provided in detailed
bibliographical page to switch over. DELETE option is provided to ILL
administrator in REQUEST and RESPONSE form.
5. In response, same requests to different libraries are displayed together.
Earlier it used to be scattered according to mail date.
Example:
Request Author Periodical Title Vol Year Unit Reminder Mail Date
No
No
100 Morgan BNL Technical Notes 48 1975 A3 23- June2003
100 Morgan BNL Technical Notes 48 1975 B0 25 June-2003
99 Tieu Journal of the Optical 60 1970 C3 24 June-2003
and Ulrich Society of America
The interlibrary response time could be considerably reduced if libraries could supply
electronic copies. The urgent requests could be fulfilled by digital document delivery. For
requests from the journals, which are accessible full-text on-line, the articles can be
downloaded in pdf. format and sent as an e-mail attachment. For other journals, articles
can be scanned, converted to pdf. and sent as an e-mail attachment. Putting on ftp server
can also be considered. The receiving library could print a hard copy, & delete the
electronic file to meet copyright requirement. Warning concerning copyright violation is
reproduced in our Web-form (Appendix - 1). It mentions clearly that any resource library
reserves right to refuse to accept a copyright order if, in its judgment fulfillment of the
order would involve violation of copyright. However since supply of an electronic copy
may not be acceptable to some publishers, that option has not been considered this option
for the present.
6. Conclusion
Web-based ILL system has reduced the work at users as well as library end. We could
avoid duplication of data entry work. Least time is taken by CAT library to forward
request to other library by saving time in entering data about the document & resource
libraries repeatedly, preparing letter, printing, sending etc. Due to ease in reminding, the
number of requests not fulfilled is now very few. It has curtailed the manual work of
telephoning & delivering the document to the users, as on receipt of the document the
intimation is automatically sent. It has made the retrieving process easier with the search
facility & is easy to know the status of the request. We plan to extend the system to other
libraries for operational and management of their document supply. A centralized DAE
ILL system can be planned on ANUNET, the DAE network.
Acknowledgement
We thank Mr.Deeptikant Pathy and Mr.Anurag Bansal of our computer
centre who has developed the software for ILL system.
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