Message-Id: <199602061532.JAA25979@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 08:40:27 PST From: Jerry Kuntz <mailto:jkuntz@MHV.NET> Subject: ILL component To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>
Incorporating an ILL request form/ILL component is a feature I haven't seen yet on the handful of webcats I've looked at. It brings up a host of issues: where the request gets routed to; whether the request indicates just one holding library [which leads back to the webcat feature of searching multiple sites simultaneously, in sequence, or one at a time]; and how the request could be integrated into a vendor's ILL module that would route the request from one holding library to another, give request status, cancel unfilled requests, output reports and statistics, etc. The mere ability to generate an ILL request form--though helpful--is far from a complete ILL system.Jerry Kuntz Electronic Resources Counsultant Ramapo Catskill Library System mailto:jkuntz@mhv.net