DOCLINE 2.8 was released today. NLM suggests the following action items to address the enhancements: (more…)

EFTS (Electronic Fund Transfer System) welcomes two new members in the Pacific Northwest Region:

IDUAHB
St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center
Kissler Family Health Sciences Library
Boise, ID
Joined: 05-19-2006

ORUORE
Oregon Health & Science University Library
Portland, OR
Joined: 06-23-2006

Interested in joining? Contact EFTS or Patricia Devine.

Please follow the guidelines posted below when revising your routing table - they are based on recommendations made by NLM and DOCLINE Coordinators from all 8 regions in the Network.

DOCLINE Routing Table Guidelines

1. Individual local, state, and regional consortia members in the lower cells, eg. #1-3

2. Favorite & established lenders in the lower cells, eg. #1-3 (even if they’re part of a library group, such as FreeShare)

3. Any library group added to a table should be placed in a cell on its own or only with those individual libraries than can be expected to be treated equally by the algorithm. This is in order to reap the full benefit of the new routing algorithm.

4. The FreeShare library group can be placed in higher cells (#6-9). Consider placing other library groups in the middle (#4-6) or higher (#7-9) cells.

The latest Technical Bulletin from NLM includes an article by DOCLINE’s Maria Collins:
DOCLINE® 2.7: The Next Generation of Routing. NLM Tech Bull. 2006 Mar-Apr;(348):e8.

Call (1-800-338-7657) or email me rycea@u.washington.edu if you have any questions or need assistance.

~ Andrea

As of March 17, 26% of Pacific Northwest DOCLINE libraries participate in EFTS, DOCLINE’s electronic billing component. (more…)

A message from the National Library of Medicine:

The National Library of Medicine and the DOCLINE Team proudly acknowledge that today marks 21 years of service to the health library community for DOCLINE.

DOCLINE was initially implemented in March 1985 as a command line, character based system for placing and routing interlibrary loan requests among the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. In fiscal year 1987, borrowers entered 788,105 interlibrary loan requests into DOCLINE and there were 1,435 participating libraries.

Today, DOCLINE serves more than 3,200 libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. DOCLINE libraries currently report more than 1.4 million serial holdings. DOCLINE also provides select international medical libraries the ability to serve users in their regions via Loansome Doc. (more…)

We’re pleased to announce that 3 institutions have recently secured funding from the NN/LM PNR to improve or implement electronic document delivery:

Betty M. Anderson Library, WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing (Spokane, WA)
Award amount: $2000
Award funding will be used to purchase a replacement scanner to ensure uninterrupted participation in electronic document delivery.

Overlake Hospital Medical Center Library (Bellevue, WA)
Award amount: $1340
Overlake Hospital Medical Center Library will be purchasing a scanner in order to offer electronic document delivery service to their patrons and other libraries.

Portland VA Medical Center Library
Award amount: $299
The Portland VA Medical Center Library will use their funding to purchase components to add to their existing copier. This will allow the Library to directly scan and send articles electronically to off-campus clinicians, researchers and residents in a timely manner.

The NN/LM PNR has additional funding to award 5 more DOCLINE institutions up to $2000 each to improve or implement their electronic document delivery. If you are interested, please fill in the online application. Applications are due on January 31, 2006. For more information, visit the official announcement on the PNR website, or email Andrea Ryce at rycea@u.washington.edu. Note: links to outdated information have been removed.