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Your
Routing Table is the grouped list of institutions to which DOCLINE
will send your serial requests. Institutions are listed by LIBID
("library identifier"), 20 LIBIDs in 9 cells. You design
your Routing Table based on your region's procedures and your library's
needs. (NOTE: There is an "invisible" tenth cell that is occupied by NLM, which serves as the default final routing location unless you deactivate "Route to NLM" in your DOCLINE Options.)
Routing
within a cell is randomized by DOCLINE. To route a request,
the system starts in the first cell and selects the LIBIDs
with
serial holdings that match the request. DOCLINE then randomizes
the selected LIBIDs and begins routing. The LIBIDs are alphabetized
on your screen to make browsing easier for you, but that
is not
the order in which they receive requests. You cannot influence
which LIBIDs within a cell will receive a request first.
Use
cells to control routing order. Put the LIBIDs that you want
to receive your requests first in the first cell, put the LIBIDs
that you want requests to route to next in the second cell, and
so on through the ninth cell. For example, many libraries place
LIBIDs for institutions with which they have reciprocal agreements
in the lowest-numbered cells.
Review your routing table at least once a year. Remove libraries and/or add new ones as needed. This will maximize DOCLINE's routing of your requests. |
