Calming the Tempest: The Benefits of Using Prospero for Electronic Document Delivery in a Large Academic Library

To effectively supplement a library's collection, Interlibrary Loan departments must strive to produce materials quickly. As libraries acquire more online databases, ILL departments experience a reciprocal increase in article requests submitted. Facing increased demands, how can ILL departments...

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Published inJournal of interlibrary loan, document delivery & electronic reserve Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 79 - 86
Main Authors Weible, Cherié L., Robben, Christine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton, NY Taylor & Francis Group 31.07.2002
Haworth Press
Subjects
document delivery
Electronic media
Exact sciences and technology
Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign
Information and communication sciences
Information dissemination (open archives, open access,...) and document delivery
Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction
Information science. Documentation
interlibrary loan
Online document delivery
Prospero
Sciences and techniques of general use
University libraries
USA
United States
North America
Illinois
America
Task difficulty
Electronic environment
Case study
Interlibrary loan
Electronic document delivery
Higher education library
Software
Document delivery
Open source software
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Summary:To effectively supplement a library's collection, Interlibrary Loan departments must strive to produce materials quickly. As libraries acquire more online databases, ILL departments experience a reciprocal increase in article requests submitted. Facing increased demands, how can ILL departments improve and maintain timely and efficient service? The Information Resource and Retrieval Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign responded to this challenge by integrating Electronic Document Delivery to the benefit of library users. This article describes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's decision to use Prospero for EDD and the trials and triumphs of Prospero's successful implementation.
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ISSN:1072-303X
1540-3572
DOI:10.1300/J110v12n04_08