Project Name: easyArticle

Project Orginator: Jean Rainwater

Departmental Sponsor: Harriette Hemmasi

Project Description:
Analogous to easyBorrow, this project will create a single interface for requesting article delivery whether from the Annex, from the stacks (for faculty), or from interlibrary loan. We do a good job of delivering scanned articles from our collections to users at other institutions via ILL; why not invest resources in delivering scanned articles from our collections to our own users?

Why is this project important?
Users will no longer need to figure out complicated services and service levels. The library will more efficiently catch requests for items we own before they enter the ILL process.

Additional Information:
This project will require time commitments from the programming group. An API to our holdings in Rapid is needed for this project; this API is supposed to be available soon.

Date Submitted: March 1, 2009

Desired Completion Date: August 3, 2009

Status: awaiting review

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