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Reprint of an article from theDragonflyFall 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 4 |
Award Recipients: Electronic Document Delivery for DOCLINE Libraries
We are happy to announce the libraries that will receive funding from the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library to begin or expand electronic document delivery services. Six libraries in the Pacific Northwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine submitted proposals for Electronic Document Delivery for DOCLINE Libraries awards in response to the August announcement of funding. We had advertised the availability of five awards for up to $2,000—but because several of the proposals were for significantly less than the maximum, we were able to fund all six proposals. These projects represent a range of approaches to implementing electronic document delivery (EDD), revealing the differences between institutional environments and needs.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
Library, Portland, OR
Award amount: $699.
After concerted effort, Daphne Plaut recently resolved networking, security, and firewall issues and her library can now use Ariel on a workstation with a T1 line through a secure firewall. The library receives Ariel documents, converts them to pdfs, and emails them to customers. The library had purchased the full version of the Ariel software (receiving and sending both) and will use this award from NN/LM PNR to acquire a scanner. This will allow electronic delivery of interlibrary loan requests to DOCLINE and OCLC libraries, using Ariel to send scanned documents; and electronic delivery of print collection copies to Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research staff, using either Ariel or the software that is provided with the scanner.
National College of Naturopathic
Medicine Library, Portland, OR
Award amount: $1,555.
Rick Severson’s library established a full interlibrary loan program about three years ago, at the urging of various accrediting agencies. The program is growing at a steady rate and they are a net lender by virtue of a unique collection. A grant from Aboca, an Italian herbal corporation, enabled the library to purchase a PC and a scanner; this award from NN/LM PNR will be used to buy Ariel software in order to send and receive electronic documents instead of relying so heavily upon mail, fax, and shipping. This award will also be used to acquire Adobe Acrobat to create and manipulate pdf files, and Clio software for tracking and organizing ILL transactions.
Providence
Everett Medical Center Library, Everett, WA
Award amount: $1,408.
Sue Innes uses Outlook Express for electronic delivery to patrons of articles from journals for which her library has online access. This service has brought timeliness, clarity of copy, and decreasing costs. Funds from this NN/LM PNR award will allow the library to expand its email document delivery service to include copies of articles from its print collection. Following the recommendation of the medical center’s information systems department, the library will acquire a scanner and OmniPage Pro Office software for document conversion and pdf formatting. Award funds will also be used cover labor costs of software and scanner installation.
St. Joseph Medical
Center Library, Tacoma, WA
Award amount: $1,062.
Brynn Beals will use this award to upgrade her library's current Ricoh copy machine to one with scanning capability, to provide a data line for this machine, and to purchase Adobe Acrobat. This will give her library the ability to scan and send pdf documents via email. Ricoh is the vendor for all Franciscan Health System photocopiers, fax machines, scanners, etc. The institution has made the decision to move toward multifunction devices so this upgrade will support that initiative and enhance library services.
Tuality Healthcare Health Sciences
Library, Hillsboro, OR
Award amount: $926.
For the libraries at Tuality Healthcare, Judith Hayes will use this award to acquire a scanner and Ariel software. These will make it possible to use the hospital library staff computer for scanning articles into tiff or pdf, and transmitting via web email as attachments. Their institutional MIS is currently designing an in-house tool for secure passwords to documents stored on the hospital intranet, a web pick-up system that they hope to use for articles to in-house patrons. If this is successful, they hope to provide access to scanned articles via Web pick-up from their Web server to fill ILL requests from other institutions.
Willamette Falls Hospital,
Oregon City, OR
Award amount: $2,000.
In collaboration with her hospital’s IT department, Kathy Martin will use the award from NN/LM PNR to acquire a scanner, Adobe Acrobat, and Ariel plus Norton Personal Firewall to protect the library’s dedicated EDD computer. The award will also be used to fund technical support assistance from Symantec to set up the firewall and open up two ports for the EDD machine. This project will expand the library’s options for document delivery to patrons and to other libraries, enabling faster, more efficient service through computer-to-computer transmission and receipt of articles.
Congratulations to these six libraries!
Dragonfly, Fall 2003 -- Volume 34 Issue 4
