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Uborrow : a direct consortial borrowing service and system

Uborrow : a direct consortial borrowing service and system. Amy Paulus Head, Access Services University of Iowa Main Library amy-fuls@uiowa.edu Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference 2014. Agenda. What is UBorrow? What was the planning process? How does it work for our users?

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Uborrow : a direct consortial borrowing service and system

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  1. Uborrow: a direct consortial borrowing service and system Amy PaulusHead, Access ServicesUniversity of Iowa Main Libraryamy-fuls@uiowa.edu Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference 2014

  2. Agenda • What is UBorrow? • What was the planning process? • How does it work for our users? • How does it work for ILL staff? • Is UBorrow worthwhile? • Questions?

  3. Who are the CIC? • Committee on Institutional Cooperation • Big 10 schools plus University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and Rutgers.

  4. What is Uborrow? • Public interface using Relais D2D software. • Z39.50 to retrieve availability from circulation software (availability determined by sub-library/collection as well as circulation information) • Staff interface using ILLiad.

  5. What is Uborrow? • Lending • No cost • Tiering of collections • Tier 1 for those collections from which we can typically retrieve & ship material within a day.  • Tier 2 for those collections for which it typically takes 2 days to retrieve & ship materials.  • Tier 3 should be used for collections that typically take longer than 2 days to retrieve & ship materials.    • Center for Research Libraries included • Borrowing • Chicago, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin, and Iowa. • Database that can be searched for books.

  6. What was the planning process? • CIC VEL • Agreed a direct consortial system was needed (i.e. financial support!)! • 2009 began investigating products • 2010 choose Relais • Had to agree on policies! • No recalls (unless unique or for course reserve). • 12 week loan period with 4 week renewal. • Ship via UPS or FedEx so arrival within a week • 2011 6 pilot libraries (UI, Chicago, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern) • 2012 UI went live! • Mass email to graduate students • Message in Smart Search • Separate item under Services on web

  7. How does it work for our users?

  8. How does it work for our users? • Requested/Managed through ILLiad • Receive notification emails • Request renewals

  9. How does it work for ILL staff? • UBorrow borrowing requests • Book arrives and is made ready for user!

  10. How does it work for ILL staff? • UBorrow borrowing ILL requests

  11. How does it work for ILL staff? • UBorrow borrowing via an ILLiad add-on

  12. How does it work for ill staff? • UBorrow lending requests • Request arrives with call number and location information and routed to the awaiting in stacks queue

  13. How does it work for ill staff? • UBorrow lending requests • Requests for branch/annex locations, still arrive with call number and location information but routed to another queue.

  14. Is uborrow worthwhile?

  15. Is UBorrow worthwhile? • The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative 2012 Innovation Award Recognizes The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) for UBorrow! • Load-levelling

  16. Future considerations • Turnaround Time • Adding all as borrowers • API • Tying together those with multiple instances (Penn State, Chicago) • Local instruction (i.e. email those that should have used it!)

  17. Links • CIC Center for Library Initiatives: https://www.cic.net/projects/library/home • CIC UBorrow: http://www.cic.net/projects/library/reciprocal-borrowing/uborrow • RelaisInternational: http://www.relais-intl.com/solutions/ • UBorrow libguide: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/uborrow

  18. Questions? Comments? Discussion? Thank you!

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