beta testing ill workflows catherine jones systems librarian e-mail: [email protected]
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Areas to be covered
• What is CCLRC?• How CCLRC got involved • Why CCLRC got involved• Our Beta testing plan• Results so far• Conclusions
What is CCLRC?
• Research Council providing large scale facilities for academic community
• ILLs are free and unlimited • 2000 - 3000 ILLS per year• BLDSC main source for ILLs• ILL module since 1997
How CCLRC got involved
• Discussions at EUUG about ILL module (1997)
• ILL meeting Feb 1998• Letter to Sirsi re improvements • Showed an interest in how the
module would evolve!
Why CCLRC got involved
• Opportunity to influence development
• Different scale to Universities• Different way of working (special
library)
Our Beta testing plan
• Why Beta test?• Systems tests• Roll-out to staff• Reporting problems to Sirsi
Results so far
• Systems testing nearly complete• ILL staff to check through autumn• Generated ILLs successfully
Beta test conclusions
• Developing software takes a long time
• Beta testing is tedious but worthwhile
ILL workflows conclusions
• Good points– Creation/sending process– “Add address”
• Bad points– System set-up