[Yulpub] Fwd: [rlg-announce] News of increased ILL support in RLG Union Catalog

[Suzanne Lorimer]

FYI . . .

-Sue

>  RLG has just installed a new feature in the RLG Union
>Catalog to better serve interlibrary loan librarians
>and their clients: Information about the current
>availability of materials they are seeking to borrow or
>consult on site. RLG Union Catalog records contributed
>by libraries with Voyager or INNOPAC Millennium online
>public access catalogs now indicate what is actually
>accessible by drawing on these local catalogs.
>
>
>Voyager and INNOPAC Millennium OPACs accessible through
>the gateway include catalogs for major research
>collections at universities like Columbia, Cornell,
>Pennsylvania, Temple, and Yale, as well as at the Getty
>Research Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National
>Library of Australia, and New York Public Library.
>
>
>This addition to interlibrary lending speed and results
>was spurred by the SHARES resource-sharing partnership.
>SHARES "fill rates" for ILL requests are expected to
>improve significantly owing to the precise information
>the gateway supplies, increasing productivity while
>saving time.
>
>
>Institutions using RLG's ILL Manager software gain the
>very most in ease and efficiency. At the click of a
>button they can now immediately see the best local
>holdings information for their preferred lenders and
>limit the request being sent to just those where the
>material is actually available.
>
>The news release, with more information, is available at
>http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20801
>
>For the most current list of all local catalogs in use,
>see http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20804
>
>Dennis Massie, RLG program officer for Resource Sharing,
>welcomes any questions or comments you have about this
>new facility at mailto:dennis.massie at rlg.org

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
Research Services and Collections Department
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527