Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo is releasing the first version of the
Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) on Wednesday, August 19th. GIST was
developed at the State University of New York College at Geneseo with an
eye toward converging ILL and Acquisitions workflows and user
interfaces, while leveraging the strengths of various workflows and
systems. Beware: GIST was designed to transform the business of
borrowing, buying, and accessing.
The purpose of GIST is to provide a new model and useful tools to
integrate and optimize acquisitions and interlibrary loan services, and
to promote regional collection diversity. It is a system for merging
Acquisitions and ILL request workflow using one interface, allowing for
user-initiated requests, coordinated collection development and
acquisitions. The project integrates disparate content and workflow
(holdings, price, user feedback) that is hard to merge in many ILS.
So how does it work?
GIST uses customized ILLiad 8 workflows, client layouts, and web pages
that display discovery information from Amazon Web Services (price,
reviews, & ratings), the WorldCat API (holdings information), Google
Books API (table of contents or full/partial text), and open access
content, and prompts for user input and feedback. Why? Currently, most
acquisition and ILL requests are done through function-based
departments, with their own workflow and multiple methods of input from
librarians, faculty, students and other users. GIST allows a library to
customize and configure the request management process through:
* Automated holdings information check using the WorldCat API
service (local, regional, state, etc.)
* Purchase price look-up service using Amazon and other vendor APIs
* Collection of user feedback (should library purchase this item?
Is it essential, non-essential, etc.?)
* Customizable emails and workflow enhancement by using the ILLiad
software on the staff side
The GIST team at SUNY Geneseo is interested in getting your feedback. Go
to the Getting It System Toolkit Blog
<http://gettingitsystemtoolkit.blogspot.com/>
(http://gettingitsystemtoolkit.blogspot.com/) and give us your feedback!
Interested in downloading? Check out the GIST Documentation and
installation instructions at
http://toolkit.idsproject.org/doku.php?id=wiki:gist.
For further information, please contact Kate Pitcher, Collection
Development Librarian at pitcher_at_geneseo.edu <mailto:pitcher_at_geneseo.edu>.
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Kate Pitcher
Coordinator of Collection Development
Milne Library @ SUNY Geneseo
Ph: 585-245-5064
pitcher_at_geneseo.edu
http://www.geneseo.edu/~pitcher
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Received on Thu Aug 20 2009 - 14:16:03 EDT