DOCLINE 2.8 Release Notes can be viewed at:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/docline_rel_info_v2_8.html
The Release Notes include links to screenshots of the upcoming changes.

Highlights of the release include:

• Improvements to Loansome Doc registration to ensure the patron has contacted the library prior to registration
• Ability for libraries to remove unauthorized patrons from their Loansome Doc Patron Administration search results

This is available at the bottom of your Update User Information screen in your Loansome Doc profile.

• Increased visibility to the duplicate order warning message for Loansome Doc

The Regional Medical Libraries participated in beta testing of the release. In addition, NLM invited vendors to participate in beta testing to allow them to system test their products which integrate with DOCLINE. The vendors are QuickDOC, Cliosoftware, ILLiad, Relais, RLG, and VDX. Please let NLM know via the Contact Us link if there are other vendors you think should be invited to participate in future testing.

DOCLINE Reaches 20M Request

The National Library of Medicine and the DOCLINE Team proudly acknowledged that on Friday, May 19, 2006, at 1:25 pm ET, the 20 Millionth request (#20000000) was entered into DOCLINE. The 20 millionth request was an ILL request submitted by the Bibliotheque Des Sciences De La Sante, Peb Universite De Sherbrooke - in Sherbrooke, Canada. This request was filled on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 10:40 am ET by Baystate Medical Center - in Springfield, MA. Congratulations to both of these DOCLINE libraries for being a part of this DOCLINE milestone.

NLM also want to thank DOCLINE users for their dedicated service to health professionals and the public in need of biomedical literature and health information and for the years of support of the DOCLINE system as well as many ideas for improving DOCLINE.

DOCLINE serves more than 3,200 libraries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Currently, DOCLINE libraries report more than 1.4 million serial holdings. These numbers illustrate the success of DOCLINE and Loansome Doc and the reciprocal ILL activities among DOCLINE libraries

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