SABINET implementing OCLC Web-based ILL service

Citation

(2000), "SABINET implementing OCLC Web-based ILL service", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 28 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2000.12228dab.008

SABINET implementing OCLC Web-based ILL service

SABINET implementing OCLC Web-based ILL service

Keywords Interlending, Internet, Library services, South Africa

SABINET Online is implementing a nationwide interlibrary loan service for South African libraries using OCLC SiteSearch WebZ and OCLC software that tracks and manages interlibrary loans. More than 400 libraries, including those in five major consortia in South Africa, will have access to the service.

"After investigating several ILL options, we decided on OCLC's solution, since it met all the major requirements that we had set for the development of our new ILL product", said Rosalind Hattingh, Information and Communications Technology director of SABINET Online. "Our most important requirement was that it should provide SABINET Online clients with an integrated and complete ILL and document request activity management system. The distributed software package is well-equipped to provide us with this functionality."

"The partnership between South African libraries, SABINET Online and OCLC is a strong endorsement of the power of library co-operation, which has resource sharing at its core", said Janet Mitchell Lees, managing director, OCLC Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "Working with SABINET Online to implement a distributed solution for resource sharing allows SABINET Online to maximise use of their online capacity for cataloguing and reference services, and it facilitates the efficient physical sharing of returnables as well as the sharing of regionally relevant non-returnables."

The service will allow library users and staff to search across consortium systems and other selected databases, view bibliographic records and their circulation status, and request library materials directly via the easy-to-use OCLC SiteSearch WebZ interface. It will integrate local online public access catalogue information, local policies and standards-based communications to eliminate the need for multiple ILL systems. The Web-based interface will provide both a mediated and unmediated environment for handling user-initiated requests.

For more information contact Nita Dean. Tel: +1 614 761 5002; E-mail: nita_dean@oclc.org or Kathy Fryer, OCLC Europe, Tel: +44 (0)121 456 4656; E-mail: kathy_fryer@oclc.org

Source: Press release