10-12-2020, 05:48 PM
Dear VIVA Community College ILL Contacts,
As you have likely heard, VIVA has contracted with Ex Libris to make RapidILL available to all of us. RapidILL is not a replacement for WorldShare ILL, where print material lending/borrowing will continue to be managed. Briefly, RapidILL is a service for article and book chapter borrowing and lending, and offers significantly more accurate periodical holdings information. This improves ILL service by mitigating wait times caused by institutions that do not maintain accurate holdings in OCLC.
In order to determine next steps with this project, please respond to this survey as soon as you have a few minutes. Your responses will create a current snapshot of which colleges borrow/lend articles, e-books, or print books, as well as a rough estimate of service frequency per semester.
Survey: https://forms.gle/eypLRtJwrNFY7fLV7 (a preview of all questions is below)
Responses by 2 PM on Wednesday, 10/14 would be ideal. Thank you,
-Tara
Preview of survey questions
As you have likely heard, VIVA has contracted with Ex Libris to make RapidILL available to all of us. RapidILL is not a replacement for WorldShare ILL, where print material lending/borrowing will continue to be managed. Briefly, RapidILL is a service for article and book chapter borrowing and lending, and offers significantly more accurate periodical holdings information. This improves ILL service by mitigating wait times caused by institutions that do not maintain accurate holdings in OCLC.
In order to determine next steps with this project, please respond to this survey as soon as you have a few minutes. Your responses will create a current snapshot of which colleges borrow/lend articles, e-books, or print books, as well as a rough estimate of service frequency per semester.
Survey: https://forms.gle/eypLRtJwrNFY7fLV7 (a preview of all questions is below)
Responses by 2 PM on Wednesday, 10/14 would be ideal. Thank you,
-Tara
Preview of survey questions
- Do you offer Interlibrary Loan to your patrons?
- Do you borrow articles?
- Estimated article borrowing frequency (per semester):
- Do you lend articles?
- Estimated article lending frequency (per semester):
- Do you borrow book chapters (from print books or e-books)?
- Estimated book chapter (from print books or e-books) borrowing frequency (per semester):
- Do you lend book chapters (from print books or e-books)?
- Estimated book chapter (from print books or e-books) lending frequency (per semester):
- Do you borrow print books?
- Estimated print book borrowing frequency (per semester):
- Do you lend print books?
- Estimated print book lending frequency (per semester):
- Current ILL system:
- How do you track your statistics for ILL?
- Current ILL contact email(s) for your library:
- Comments or questions about RapidILL at this time:
Tara Cassidy
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office
Director of Library Services
Virginia's Community Colleges - System Office