OCLC and Atlas Systems continue to provide ongoing enhancements to the OCLC ILLiad Resource Sharing Management software to insure that ILLiad meets the changing needs of libraries. The latest version of ILLiad software is version 8. Using the latest development platforms and tools, the ILLiad version 8 client can perform faster and more efficiently than previous versions.
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ILLiad 8: Borrowing from Submitted by Customer to Request Finished

Join Atlas Systems and Nylink as we explore ILLiad Borrowing with OCLC from top to bottom. This is an in-depth borrowing processing class offered over four one-hour online sessions. Topics for discussion:

• OCLC settings that impact your ILLiad efficiency
• How patron registration data impacts processing and options for streamlining
• Basic borrowing workflow
• Overdues, unfilleds and conditionals, renewals, ALA requests and more
• Odyssey trusted sender
• Basics of customizing borrowing email templates and word documents
• Purchase on Demand workflows and other available acquisitions and collection development customizations in ILLiad
• Dealing with connection manager errors and special messages

Dates and Cost

February 22, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 23, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 24, 2010 1-3 PM ET

February 25, 2010 1-3 PM ET

Cost: $400.00

For more information about this workshop, and other classes offered by Atlas Systems, please go to the Atlas Systems training web site.

How often do we all wonder what it would be like to step into someone else’s job for a few hours, or even a few days? Our own Jon Penn had just that chance last week when he spent a week in SUNY Geneseo’s ILL department at the Milne Library.

Jon was able to participate in and observe the day-to-day activities, from processing ILL requests through ILLiad to watching how the LAND delivery service is integrated into the ILL workflow. He admitted it’s been a few years since he’s worked in an ILL department, revealing that in his time paper forms were the norm. While the workflow is essentially the same, he said, automation has “streamlined the ILL process and eliminated some labor intensive tasks.” And SUNY Geneseo’s efficient station design allows workers (student or otherwise) to know exactly what needs to be done whenever they walk into the ILL office, e.g. whether the items in the LAND bags need to be unpacked, shelved or sent out to other LAND libraries. Jon noted that Geneseo’s well organized office “helped solve the attention to detail concerns” inherent in any ILL operation.

Next, Jon is off to attend the IDS (Information Delivery Services) Conference in early August with Donna and Dave.

Learn more about LAND, Nylink’s delivery service, and OCLC’s ILLiad.

Learn more about SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library and their leadership in the IDS Project.

Also on the horizon is the New York Resource Sharing Summit 2008 in October.

Last week, New York’s resource sharing community was well represented at the ILLiad International Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, presented by Atlas Systems, and sponsored by OCLC and the Copyright Clearance Center. Presentations from New York librarians included:

• An overview and update on the IDS Project by Ed Rivenburgh and Mark Sullivan of SUNY Geneseo, highlighted by the unveiling of the brand-new IDS Project website, http://www.idsproject.org;

• The fetchingly titled, “ILLiad and VDX: ISO-Compliant Dance Partners,” presented by Andy Perry of SUNY New Paltz;

• “Taking the Helm of a High-Functioning Interlibrary Loan Department: Optimizing Workflows and Sprucing Up ILLiad,” a roundtable discussion facilitated by Susan Lieberthal of Stony Brook University, which more than lived up to its “lively” billing–lots of great ideas flowed there;

• “Two ILLiad Clients on One Desktop: Sharing a University’s Collection, Staff and Expertise,” a joint presentation by Cynthia Bertuca of the University at Buffalo, Sarah Carmen of Empire State College, and Carol Lelonek of the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, showcasing the intriguing cooperative collection sharing pilot of those libraries.

And much lively discussion by many more New Yorkers and our colleagues, not to mention some fierce Wii-competition at the kickoff reception! Presentations will be available soon at the Atlas Systems website at http://www.atlas-sys.com