WiLS Annual ILL Meeting October 2, 2007 Odyssey Standalone

1. WiLS Annual ILL MeetingOctober 2, 2007Odyssey Standalone Bob Shaw Allen Wenzel

2. What are your electronic delivery options? Fax Email E-Doc (WiLS) Ariel Odyssey

3. What is Odyssey Standalone and what can it do? Odyssey is an electronic scanning and delivery application that can send and receive documents between other Odyssey users or OCLC ILLiad sites Crop, resize, rescan or edit received or sent documents Print, convert to PDF, or save as a tif file

4. What does Odyssey Standalone not do? It does not post electronic documents to the web for delivery It does not do full ILL workflow automation including customer notification and tracking of requests It does not automatically connect to OCLC ILL for updating items as shipped or received

5. Why add Odyssey? It works well! There is increasing use of Odyssey in the resource sharing community Ariel issues: Dissatisfaction with Infotrieve�s handling of Ariel 4.x upgrade Difficulty reinstalling Ariel 3.3/3.4 Uncertainty if Infotrieve will continue to support Ariel Atlas Systems continues to support and develop Odyssey Standalone Odyssey Standalone is free (Automatic Upgrades)

6. Who�s using Odyssey in WI?(Odyssey ILLiad libraries) Marquette University St. Norbert University UW-Colleges UW-Baraboo UW-Barron County UW-Fond du Lac UW-Fox Valley UW-Manitowoc UW-Marathon County UW-Marinette UW-Marshfield UW-Richland UW-Rock County UW-Sheboygan UW-Washington County UW-Waukesha

7. Who�s using Odyssey in USA? OhioLink (25 Odyssey Standalone + Illiad Odyssey) LVIS Libraries - 158 300+ libraries in the U.S. use Odyssey 750+ ILLiad Institutions

8. Pre-Installation tasks Edit your Policies Directory information to include your Odyssey address and that you deliver/receive via Odyssey Edit your Constant Data to include your Odyssey IP address Edit your holding groups and holding paths

17. Odyssey vs. Ariel Odyssey cannot send/receive to/from Ariel Both can be on same workstation Sharing a scanner, TWAIN driver issue

18. Technical Requirements Administrator Access to Workstation Non-Dedicated Static IP Address / DNS Name www.myipaddress.com Attached Scanner If Filling Lending Requests If Not Scanned Elsewhere Firewall Configuration Port 7968 Needs to be Open Workstation Needs to be left �On� Receiving Documents

19. How to Download Odyssey Standalone Go to: http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/odyssey Fill out the quick application form. Once complete, instructions and a link to download the Odyssey Standalone file will be emailed to you.

20. The Installation Process (1) Run OdysseyInstallPackage.exe to unzip the install files and accept default target unzip location folder (2) Odyssey installer will launch (3) Choose Step 1 to install Odyssey (4) Accept defaults (5) If prompted to re-start, choose to re-start later (6) Choose Step 2 to prepare database (7) Accept defaults (8) Exit installer (9) Restart your computer

21. Completing the ProcessInitial Configuration Launch Odyssey Go to Maintenance, Customization, System, Server, System IP and enter your static IP address

24. Additional Odyssey Info General Odyssey Information: http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/odyssey/ Odyssey Documentation: http://www.atlas-sys.com/documentation/odyssey/ For Operating Instructions: http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/odyssey/pdf/OdysseyInstructions.pdf Odyssey Standalone FAQ: (Special thanks to Brian Miller of OSU for the use of this) https://www.illiad.osu.edu/illiad/osu/lending/odysseyfaq.html Subscribe to Odyssey listserv Email: Odyssey-L-join@iris.atlas-sys.com (Leave Subject and Body blank)

25. Questions? Bob Shaw 608-263-8731 reshaw@wils.wisc.edu Allen Wenzel 608-265-0580 alwenzel@wils.wisc.edu