1. Everything You Wanted to Know and Weren't Afraid to Ask!
RACER 2.4
Everything You Wanted to Know and Weren't Afraid to Ask!

2. The Plan for the Next ½ Hour
Screen Captures to Highlight:
Things people have asked about
New Functionality
Bug Fixes
Pet Peeves
"Under the Hood" Improvements
Testing Update & Timelines

12. Profile Manager

15. Emailing Citations from Saved Lists

36. Under the Hood Full IPIG Profile Compliance 1) Improved error handling
2) Support for IPIG Status extension
3) OCLC Request extension
4) Date/time/phone number formatting
5) Transition table changes

38. DocFind (Requester)
Set the priority of matches so that the system will check for both ISBN and LCCN for monographs
Search Lists so we can tell DocFind which specific fields to search according to material type, e.g. ISSN for serials and ISBN and LCCN for monographs/other
Search Groups so we can tell DocFind to stop searching after a minimum number of matches
Search Groups so we tell DocFind to search by specific service levels
Check item status is “available” before adding any location to rota

39. Brock
Due
Add to rota
Ryerson
Carleton
Do not add to rota
Ottawa
E-book
Trent
EDU-KIT
EQUIPMENT
EXAM-SHEET
EXCEPTION
HOLDS
Nipissing
Holds
Do not add to Rota
Laurentian
HONTHESIS
ILL
In Library
IN PROCESS
Western
IN REPAIR
IN TRANSIT
In Transit
Add to Rota

40. DocFind (Responder) New background processor
Automated responder based on circulation status/availability
Allows internal rerouting of requests

57. What's Next? New hardware Staff VDX upgrade 2.4
Enhanced End user interface Zportal (2.4)
Ariel
French interface
Additional reports
Messaging Testing, Testing, Testing
More location records
Upgrade to 2.7 or 3
NCIP
Enhanced end-user interface with French-language version
Translation done in cooperation with Ontario public libraries, CREPUQ, Ottawa Smart Libraries project
Hardware upgrades to improve speed and provide redundancy

58. Ariel and JEDDS Integration with VDX
JEDDS is a piece of middleware provided by Infotrieve which allows VDX to communicate by with the other Ariel workstation using the Document Delivery Interchange protocol (DDI).
Staff using the VDX/Ariel systems now uses the JEDDS interface to view incoming scan requests and to trigger Ariel to scan and deliver the requested document once it has been identified.
Purchase, install and configure JEDDS on the local machine

59. Ariel and JEDDS Integration with VDX
Requester side – VDX Web client
authorizes a request for
Service type – copy non returnable
Del Parameter – GEDI
Delivery Method – Electronic Mail

60. Ariel and JEDDS Integration with VDX
Responder side – VDX Web client
Action shipped
Select the appropriate Ariel station

62. Ariel and JEDDS Integration with VDX
Responder side – JEDDS / Ariel machine
JEDDS must be open to receive the shipped message from VDX
In JEDDS – select send/receive – request appears in JEDDS supplier screen as pending
Select the request and press “scan document” icon to start the Ariel scanning operation
Scan document then select “end”
Ariel will send a “shipped indication” to JEDDS
Ariel will ship the document to the VDX server document receiver program (or the Ariel station at the requester side? – outstanding question)
Press send/receive in JEDDS to send shipped to VDX
Responder VDX receives a shipped indication

64. What is the Issue?
"Circulation processes and services are evolving in directions that increasingly require disparate computer applications to exchange information about library users, the items they wish to use, the owners of the items, and the relationships among these three entities. In the absence of an agreed-upon standard for interchanging circulation information, interoperability among disparate applications has been ad hoc and proprietary."

65. What is the Answer?
"A widely implemented standard protocol for the interchange of circulation information between and among disparate circulation applications, between circulation applications and interlibrary loan (ILL), or other related applications can solve this problem."

66. How do we get there?
"The standard is intended to address the growing need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, and related applications. Interoperability between self-service applications and circulation applications, between and among various circulation applications, between circulation and interlibrary loan applications, and between other related applications have been the principal focus of this standard... "

67. NCIP NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol ANSI/NISO Z39.83-200x
The NISO Standards Committee based its work on the Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP) developed by 3M to support self-checkout systems
"Defines a repertoire of messages and associated rules of syntax and semantics for use by applications to: (1) perform the functions necessary to lend items; (2) provide controlled access to electronic resources; and, (3) facilitate co-operative management of these functions."
Cover Pages: Technology Reports, November 2001
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP)

68. CILL Profile
Exchange messages between Circulation and ILL applications
Defines the subset of NCIP messages sent between the Circulation and ILL systems
NCIP Messages:
Lookup
User, Item, Authenticate User
Update
Create User, Update Item, Create Agency, Request Item, Check Out Item, Recall Item
Notification
Item Recalled, Item Shipped, User Notice Sent, User Fiscal Account Updated

69. From: ISO, IPIG, NCIP, and CILL: What do these Acronyms Mean and How Will They Improve Resource Sharing?
By Mary Jackson

70. What are the Benefits of NCIP? How is this Reflected in VDX?
Integrates, requires less staff intervention
See all loan information in one patron record
ILL lending staff can check out a book on their Circulation application and have the Circulation application notify its ILL application that the item has been “shipped”
Will Supply or Answer Hold will put a hold in the CIRC system automatically
Check-out and Check-in
Overdues and Recalls, Renews
Due Date
Banned Users
DocFind-Responder will attempt to place a hold on the item in the circulation system, and respond to the requester with ‘Will Supply’, ‘On Hold’ or ‘Not Supplied’ depending upon the availability of the item and the success of the reservation attempt.

71. Sources & Further Information
ISO, IPIG, NCIP, and CILL: What do these Acronyms Mean and How Will They Improve Resource Sharing?
Mary Jackson
NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP)
NCIP -- The invisible stitches
Patricia Stevens
Cover Pages: Technology Reports