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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC). Who Are We? Why New System + Consortium Model? History/Progress To Date Standards In Use/System Capabilities Z39.50 Searches Future Developments. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC). Who Are We? Memorial University of Newfoundland (1999)

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

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  1. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) • Who Are We? • Why New System + Consortium Model? • History/Progress To Date • Standards In Use/System Capabilities • Z39.50 Searches • Future Developments

  2. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Who Are We? • Memorial University of Newfoundland (1999) • Dalhousie University (Killam Library, 1999) • University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (1999) • University of New Brunswick, Saint John (1999) • Acadia University (2001) • Mt. Allison University (2002) • University of Prince Edward Island (2002) • Université de Moncton (Summer 2004)

  3. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Why New System + Consortial Model? • Aviso Replacement • Council of Atlantic University Libraries Atlantic Scholarly Information Network (ASIN) • Regional resource sharing • Cost sharing • Staff Time

  4. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) History/Progress to Date December 1999 – May 2004 • Three original members (MUN, DAL, UNB) • Built common library database • Servers + system administration at MUN • Agreement on joint policies • Five system upgrades • Four new sites

  5. 1.2 Z39.50 Query 5.Item 1.1NCIP Item Lookup Searches ECRC AMICUS CISTI AEU In Test With Sirsi 1.3 Z39.50 Response List of Lending Locations 1.1.2NCIP Item Response ECRC Relais System 2.1 Relais Messaging Request Item 2.2Relais Messaging Item Response 3.2 GS Non- Supply Message Translated to ILL Protocol ILL-ANSWER reason unfilled = in-use-on-loan ECRC Consortial Member 3.1ILL Protocol ILL-REQUEST Translated to GS Request Message 4.2ILL Protocol SHIPPED ISO Systems (CISTI/AEU) 4.1ILL Protocol ILL-REQUEST University of Ottawa Aviso GS System East Coast Relais Consortium Standards in Use/System Capabilities

  6. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Z39.50 Searches • OPACs autosearched (SIRSI, GEAC) • Searches supported (control #s, exact title, title first characters, title phrase, keyword title/author) • Accuracy of searches, bibliographic “hits”

  7. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)Relais Control Number Searches

  8. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Sample Z39.50 Searches on Memorial Catalogue • Title Exact Match (united states history) Memorial University Z server result = 2 records e.g. Pray, Kenneth Louis Moffatt: United States History / 1906 2.Title First Characters (united states history) Memorial University Z server result = 8 records e.g. Brown, W. Burlie. : United States History : a bridge to the world of ideas / 1960

  9. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Sample Z39.50 Searches on Memorial Catalogue 3.Title Phrase (united states history) Memorial University Z server result = 40 results e.g. The Oxford companion to United States history / 2001. 4.Title Keyword (united states history) Memorial University Z server result = 1334 Kessler-Harris, Alice. : out to work:, a history of wage-earning women in the United States / 2003.

  10. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Result • Increase in number of single hit searches • Decrease in number of searches performed • Faster processing by Relais

  11. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) Future Developments • New members (Novanet Libraries) • ISO compliance testing (OCLC) • NCIP • Open URL Resolver

  12. EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC) URL: http://boo.library.mun.ca/ecrc/ecrcwebpages/mainpage.htm Gwyn Pace, Chair ECRC Implementation Team gpace@dal.ca 902-494-6625

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