Συστήματα διαδανεισμού Ελληνικών βιβλιοθηκών
| Main Author: | Καπιδάκης, Σαράντος |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | el |
| Terbitan: |
, 2000
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/9752/1/9psab022.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/9752/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Today, with the existing technology and the globally available information, the art of information retrieval and dissemination is more complex than ever. The libraries, the traditional carrier of valid information, cannot restrict themselves to the material they physically contain in their own premises, but should be able to locate and provide more material, like the one residing in other libraries. The Union Catalogue application of NDC serves this goal for the scientific journals that are available in all Greek libraries. Using the Union Catalogue application, any user can search for the available journals in 232 libraries throughout the country, in a uniform way in a single search. But this is only the beginning of what one can do. The librarians can, additionally, order articles from the journals owned by other libraries and get the content of the articles back without walking out of their offices. After searching for the desired journals and locating the possible provider libraries, the librarians can select some of the providers, and prioritize them for each article, to handle cases where a provider cannot in fact serve the article. Afterwards they can monitor the status of the order, until it is completed. The librarians that serve articles see their pending orders in their screen, serve them by locating the printed journal and sending the article in the designated way and update the order status. If the librarians are not able to serve an order, they reject it and update its status, so that it is forwarded to the next selected provider. The application records all transactions, and charges or credits the libraries for their actions, so that the users of new services will cover their own expenses. The libraries that serve many articles will have a significant income coming from the users that order articles and are been served, to cover the expenses of the transaction. We will explain the capabilities of the application, how it promotes the cooperation and we will discuss the capabilities of the successor application, that we have already start preparing: easier - and independent of other libraries - update of journal data, capability of using external sources of journal collections and also information about articles details, for detecting articles in journals, and exploration of electronic sources of full text archives, for serving articles without human intervention. Our current version of the Union Catalogue application, with a WWW interface, has made the library cooperation closer, has increased the orders and is also used by closed groups of libraries (like the libraries of the archaeological schools, that have created their own network), that try, reluctantly, to investigate the new, cooperative, way of working. And the new application will make available a much larger variety of sources.