BIRTHDAY (you say it's your birthday?)
- Free Tugger wallpaper

Thanks to all NER members who have sent their well wishes on DOCLINE's 21st birthday back in March.

For those of you who would like to carry away a memento of this year's celebration, feel free to download Tugger wallpaper to your desktop (in his birthday cap no less!) -

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/docline_wallpaper.html

ALL THINGS MUST PASS
- DOCLINE® routing table authorization

With the release of DOCLINE 2.7 into production on March 28, we mailed out to the regional list some "Suggested Routing Table Guidelines" (see below).

These guidelines will help in deciding what changes, if any, should be made to your Routing Table.

1. Continue to dedicate individual libraries (members of local and state consortia) to lower cells (#1-2-3.)
   
   
   
2. Continue to dedicate individual libraries considered as "favorite lenders" (even if they're part of Freeshare) to lower cells (#1-2-3.)
   
   
3. If you decide to place a library group (BHSL, Freeshare, etc.) within a cell, NLM recommends placing that group in a cell all by itself -OR- "with individual libraries that can be expected to be treated equally by the routing algorithm."
   
   
4. When placing a group within a cell, please keep in mind that the DOCLINE program will match (on random selection) the first 20 potential lenders that meet criteria for a given request (title, year, delivery methods, etc.)
   
   
5. When placing a group within a cell, consider middle (#4-5-6) or higher (#7-8-9) cells.
   
   

PLEASE, PLEASE ME
- IMPORTANT REMINDER!

Once you've completed changes to your Routing Table, "please, please me" by remembering to click REQUEST APPROVAL on the Edit Routing Table screen (found under DOCLINE Options within the Institution Record.)

Some DOCLINE users have made changes to their Routing Table, clicked on SAVE, but have forgotten to take that third and final step by clicking REQUEST APPROVAL. Proposed changes must be approved by your DOCLINE Coordinator before they get sent on to production.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS
LinkOut providers offer upload service

If you subscribe to either EBSCO or ProQuest for electronic journal content, these two aggregators are now uploading subscription information to LinkOut on behalf of their subscribers.

Please take advantage of this service if it is made available to you. It will save A LOT of time in managing holdings information.

If your aggregator(s) don't provide this service, please encourage them to do so. You may find this hard to believe, but requests from (library) customers do go heeded!

Also, please note that when a provider uploads holdings on behalf of the library, those holdings will not appear in the LinkOut Holdings Submission Utility.

ANY TIME AT ALL
-and your LinkOut icons should appear

Okay - so you've completed:
(a.) registration with NCBI's LinkOut for Libraries program;
(b.) entry of your full-text electronic holdings via the Submission utility; and
(c.) uploading your institutional icon.

Now you can check to see if your links are in place. There are 7 quick steps to verifying display of your full-text icons (see below):

Please direct further questions or comments to NCBI: lib-linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

WE CAN WORK IT OUT
-with a LinkOut workshop

We conducted several LinkOut workshops back in March -- one that took place in Boston and one in Springfield. The purpose of the workshops is to provide libraries registered for the LinkOut program the opportunity to work "away from the office", to avoid interruptions and distractions - in other words - to get the task done. Participants came to the workshops prepared with: their individual User ID and Password to the LinkOut Submission Utility; a paper copy of their complete electronic holdings; and copies of their institutional LinkOut icons (stored on a floppy diskette, flash disk or CD) to be uploaded to the server in Bethesda.

If you'd like to have a LinkOut workshop held in your area, please contact your regional LinkOut Representative, Mark Goldstein at 508-856-5964 -or- send him an email: mark.goldstein@umassmed.edu.

THERE'S A PLACE (where you can go)
-an advocacy service for hospital libraries