Archive for the ‘Document Delivery’ Category
Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Advocacy, Document Delivery, Technology
The NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program is continuing to grow! Join us for an informal meeting at MLA ‘09 and read about our activities at SCELC’s Vendor Day and at the MLGSCA technology symposium, Technology in Libraries: Providing Access, Linking Communities. (more…)
Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Advocacy, Document Delivery, Technology
The NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program is now a “go” with two STAT!Ref offers underway. (more…)
Posted on October 31st, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Advocacy, Document Delivery, Technology
We are pleased to announce the NN/LM PSR E-Licensing Program! The following series of questions and answers will help you decide if you would like to participate in this new venture. These questions and answers are also available on the NN/LM PSR web site on the Licensing Electronic Resources page. Please contact Julie Kwan at the RML office if you have any questions. (more…)
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)
Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
Did you know that the National Library of Medicine encourages all DOCLINE libraries to join EFTS? (more…)
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)
Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Julie Kwan | Filed under Document Delivery
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…)