An electronic user request system for interlibrary loans
John R Sherwell
(Librarian at Smith Kline & French Research, Welwyn, UK, since 1980. He has a particular interest in library automation, having also developed an acquisitions, cataloguing and loans system for the library, and a data base of staff publications.)
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Abstract
Examines the library at Smith Kline & French Research, which has been using an automated interlibrary loans system based on BASIS text retrieval software since 1986. Describes various approaches to automation. Shows how the new system allows R&D staff to enter requests for journal articles or issues, books and patents at their own terminal or computer, and to search the database for items already requested. Concludes that the system has been very well received in its first years of operation.
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Citation
Sherwell, J.R. (1989), "An electronic user request system for interlibrary loans", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 89-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003462
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1989, MCB UP Limited