Funding Award for Automated ILL Software and Training

The GMR is pleased to announce that Western Michigan University has received funding in the amount of $4,642 in the form of an NNLM Technology Enhancement Award to implement resource sharing management software at the Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) Library. Congratulations to WMed and applicant Elizabeth R. Lorbeer, EdM, MLS, Founding Library Director on the successful proposal. Background The WMed Medical Library is described as a born digital library, serving one of the newest medical schools in the United States. Document delivery and resource sharing requests have increased steadily since the school’s inception (August 2014). Although other Western Michigan libraries operate with automated software, the WMed Medical Library is administered separately. With no dedicated resource sharing department, faculty librarians were monitoring and responding to user requests manually. Project Description The GMR will fund the purchase and implementation of ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan Internet Accessible Database), an electronic system to facilitate resource sharing. Project Objectives Objective One: Implement ILLiad at WMed by coordinating software and technology requirements of satellite instance of ILLiad; Objective Two: Train library faculty to use ILLiad; Objective Three: Provide outreach to WMed community. Project Goals Goal One: Replace the current manual research sharing workflow with an automated system. Goal Two: Standardize and improve the resource ...
Source: The Cornflower - Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tags: Funding Resource Sharing Technology Source Type: news