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              ACTION FOR LIBRARIES
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Bibliographical Center for Research 0 Volume XXIV, Numberll,NovemberJ998 0 ISSN: 0363·0250
. Dele Makes III Direct Request
Available for Free Three-month Trial
By Rosario Garza
If your library uses the OCLC FirstSearch and Inter-
, libra"ry Loan services, you can test drive the new
OCLC ILL Direct Request service free during January:
March 1999. OCLC ILL Direct Request allows your
users to send unmediated ILL requests directly, from
either your local system or fn?ffi FirstSearch, to poten~
tiallenders and suppliers.
The OCLC ILL Direct Request service further auto­mates
your library's ILL borrowing process. ' If you
have a local system with an ILL interface that adheres
to the ISO 10160/10161 ILL protocols, your users can
search your library's OPAC, web or locaflremote
databases for the information ,they need. Once they
loc~te the need~ item, your ~~;ers ~an submit ~n. ILL
request through the FirstSearch/ILL link. The ILL .
Direct Request service can' search WorldCat (OCLC's
online union catalog), locate potential lenders through
Custom Holdings paths and produce the OCLC ILL
request. Requests that fall to be produced through this
, process will go automatically into the library'S Review
file for ILL staff to process,
To help promote the new ILL Direct Request service,
OCLC is waiving charges for the unmediated ILL re­quests
that come in through this service and go out to
potential lenders without ,having togo t~ the library's
Review file. If a request routed through the ILL Di-reet
Request service ends up in the library's Review·
file, the normal transaction-based fees for ILL Produce
will apply.
To use ILL Direct Request, you must have the
FirstSearch/ILL link turned on in the FirstSearch
Admin module. Libraries"als'o must have web-accessed
ILL profiles and CustOm Holdings paths set up for the
ILL Direct Request service to work. 'These profiles al.
low ILL staff to define what conditions must be met'
for a request to be sent through ILL Direct Request.
The profiles contain the names of Custom Holdings
paths arid constant data records and serve a~-filt~rs.
If you are interested in trying out ILL Direct Request,
but have questions about the service, contact BCR's
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