New Users of the Interlibrary Loan Form

Earlier this week, the library started a new delivery method for Interlibrary Loan items (basically, getting you articles and book chapters that our library doesn't have.)

This is a new thing, and it seems to have confused our Interlibrary Loan Web form: It seems that if you haven't used our online request forms ever before, you are going to have problems...new users get stuck in an endless loop.

SO....
New users need to contact Document Delivery Services before they can use the web request form:

For MacKimmie or Law Libraries: phone 220-5967 or email illomack@ucalgary.ca

For the Health Sciences Library: phone 220-7419 or email meddoc@ucalgary.ca

Users who have made at least one request before March 10 should have no problem using the web request form.

New Interlibrary Loan Delivery Method

As of today, almost all (see note below*) Interlibrary Loan articles and book chapters requested via our online request forms (http://neter.lib.ucalgary.ca/DDS/jsp/dds.jsp) will be sent via "post-to-web."

What does this mean?
You will get an email with a link in it. Click on the link, et voila! A pdf appears and you can print your article.

For more information:
http://library.ucalgary.ca/services/interlibraryloan/posttoweb.php

This is brand-new, so let us know if you encounter anything weird, or if you have any comments.

*Lastly, if you request an article/book chapter that is only available to us in print (e.g. for some reason the lending library can't email a copy to us), you'll still have to pick it up in the Library.

Break JSTOR! (Tomorrow!)

(This is from an email to our Serials Librarian, from JSTOR)

In preparation for launching the new JSTOR platform, we invite you to help us try to reach maximum capacity on the servers that deliver the preview of the new JSTOR. We want to ensure that the new platform will perform under extreme usage conditions.

What to do: Sometime between 3:00 and 4:00 EST (1-2pm "Calgary time") on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, please access the JSTOR Preview site
(http://preview.jstor.org) and search and browse as you normally would in JSTOR. We would appreciate even a few minutes of your time during this hour.

JSTOR Developers will be monitoring the performance of the preview site, so you may simply enter and exit at your convenience.

As always, we value your use of JSTOR. This test will help to ensure that the new platform when launched will deliver the performance you expect.

Best regards,

Sherry Aschenbrenner
Director, JSTOR User Services