Welcome to our new EFTS members! There are now 195 EFTS members in the Pacific Southwest, representing 48.4% of our DOCLINE libraries! In addition, our region now has the second largest number of EFTS libraries; only the Middle Atlantic Region has more. (more…)

Now that so many libraries are joining EFTS, it’s time to rethink your routing table! Here’s how you can add EFTS libraries to it. (more…)

Welcome to our new EFTS members! There are now 188 EFTS members in the Pacific Southwest, representing 47% of our DOCLINE libraries! The following 13 libraries have joined EFTS since February 1, 2008: (more…)

One of the goals for the 2006-2011 NN/LM PSR contract is to assist Network members with negotiating licensing agreements for electronic resources. In developing our proposal for the contract period, we began by identifying existing buying consortia in the region. (more…)

Did you know that the National Library of Medicine encourages all DOCLINE libraries to join EFTS? (more…)

DOCLINE libraries in the Pacific Southwest Region are overwhelmingly moving to the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS) and to reciprocal groups for resource sharing, such as FreeShare. As a result, both the Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona (MLGSCA) and the Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group (NCNMLG) are planning to end their coupon sales and redemption programs. Although coupons played a very useful role for libraries to share among themselves in the days of paper-based interlibrary loan, they do not work well in today’s electronic based system. (more…)

Congratulations to Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Health Sciences Library as the “first” recipient of the new EFTS ‘reward’ for successfully recruiting a new EFTS participant! EFTS has instituted this program to encourage participation in EFTS. Here’s how Jola Slowinski, EFTS Program Coordinator, describes the new reward… (more…)

DOCLINE now utilizes SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) for communication between NLM and users’ browsers. SSL helps prevent eavesdropping over the network, tampering, and message forgery. This change took place with DOCLINE version 3.2.5 which was released on October 3, 2007. (more…)

Welcome to our new EFTS members! There are now 164 EFTS members in the Pacific Southwest, representing 40.29% of our DOCLINE libraries — a major milestone! (more…)

Did you know that you can now use DOCLINE to generate a file of charges to send to EFTS? With this new feature, even small libraries can recoup some of their interlibrary loan expenses. Many are asking “Now that EFTS is available, why should we use coupons any longer?” (more…)