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Institutions: People
  Keep Your People Information Up-to-Date
Institutions:
 
1. Addresses
   
2. People
   
3. Membership
   
4. Services & Fees
   
5. DOCLINE Options
  (includes Routing Table)
   
   
6. Loansome Doc
 
 
 
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Use the People Screen in your DOCLINE Institution Record to list your library's staff so that their contact information is easy to find.

The following information is required for each person's Contact record:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Phone number.

If you wish, you can also include Middle name, Title, Email address, and Fax number.

Also required: Indicate each person's role using the Contact Types:

  • A person who has multiple roles can have more than one Contact Type.
  • Each Contact Type can also be used for different individuals in libraries where several people share one role.
  • DOCLINE provides these common Contact Types:
    • Consumer Health
    • Director
    • Interlibrary Loan
    • LinkOut
    • Loansome Doc
    • NN/LM Liaison
    • Reference
    • Serial Holdings.
  • An "Other" Contact Type is also provided to accommodate additional kinds of roles.

View a screen shot of a blank Contact record.

View an example of two completed Contact records. Each person has multiple roles. They also each have the Reference role.

Keep this information current! Review your records at least once a year, and edit them when anything changes. Your colleagues in other DOCLINE libraries are depending on you.

   
video Watch a Video about How to Change People in Your Institution Record (1min 41sec; 1.4mb)
   
 

Read more about keeping your people/contact information up-to-date , from NLM's DOCLINE Help:

See also: Institutions FAQ from NLM's FAQ: DOCLINE Frequently Asked Questions.

 

This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine DOCLINE Tutorial
Revised: July 27, 2006

URL: http:// nnlm.gov/training/docline_archive/institutions/people/people.html