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ARIEL. Denise A. Forro, Head Document Delivery Michigan State University Libraries MDMLG Meeting, November 15, 2001. ARIEL. Overview of ARIEL What is it? How does it work? Problems?. ARIEL. MSU Document Delivery Services Operations How we use ARIEL Impact on services

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  1. ARIEL Denise A. Forro, Head Document Delivery Michigan State University Libraries MDMLG Meeting, November 15, 2001

  2. ARIEL • Overview of ARIEL • What is it? • How does it work? • Problems?

  3. ARIEL • MSU Document Delivery Services • Operations • How we use ARIEL • Impact on services • Impact on patrons

  4. ARIEL • Benefits for your operation • Interacting with the world • Pitfalls • Questions

  5. Overview of ARIEL

  6. ARIEL: What is it? • Scan articles • Transmit articles • Delivery to patrons

  7. Scanning • Works with existing hardware • Flatbed scanners/Overhead scanners/Document feeder-scanners • Available Settings (ARIEL 3.01) • Grayscale • Color • Different paper sizes

  8. Transmission • Transmits via Internet • FTP (File Transfer Protocol) • MIME e-mail (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

  9. Delivery • Desktop delivery • Web server space • E-mail attachment • File choice • PDF • TIFF

  10. ARIEL: How does it work? • Position material • Select scan • Adjust options • Grayscale, etc. • Scan • Send or save

  11. Position material • Overhead scanning • Finger detect • Flatbed scanning • Document fed scanner

  12. Select Scan • Select “Scan” from the Document menu • Scan Dialog Box • Scan and Save • Scan and Send • View page

  13. Adjustment Options • Grayscale • Color • Landscape or portrait • Dithering

  14. Scan

  15. Send or Save • Send and delete • Send and save

  16. MSU Document Delivery Services

  17. 5 FTE Borrowing Staff 3 students 3 FTE Lending Staff 24 students Operations - Staff

  18. Operations – Borrowing 2000 • Requests Filled: 28,106 • Original: 6,599 • Copy: 21,507 • Average Turnaround Time (days) 7.53 OCLC Year to Date Statistics June 2001

  19. Operations – Lending 2000 • Requests Filled: 28,169 • Original: 10,812 • Copy: 17,357 OCLC Year to Date Statistics June 2001

  20. How we use ARIEL • Borrowing • Receive stations • Scan and hold • Desktop delivery – Prospero • Lending • Send stations • Photoduplication Services • Scan and hold • Desktop delivery - Prospero

  21. Impact on Services • Borrowing • Receive documents quickly • Some same day delivery of documents • Lending • Send documents quickly • Faster turnaround • Easier on materials – overhead scanner • Less faxing, lower costs

  22. Impact on Services Less Paper!!!

  23. Impact on Patrons • Quick turnaround • Desktop delivery option • Save to file or print copy • Satisfied customers

  24. Benefits

  25. Benefits for your operation • Faster receipt of documents • Send quickly to borrowing libraries • Ability to send to desktop of patrons • Less paper • Less cost • Happier customers • Happier partners

  26. Worldwide

  27. International Use • Worldwide use • British Library

  28. Pitfalls

  29. Pitfalls • Incompatibility with scanner drivers • Patches and fixes with 3.01 • Ariel 2.2 libraries • Non-Ariel libraries

  30. Questions??

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