CoPY Introductory Presentation Slides
January 1998

• CoPY (Columbia, Penn, Yale) is
  • End-user direct ILL
  • Inter-library circulation
  • Next-generation resource sharing

• CoPY Goals
  • Make inter-library borrowing easier for readers
  • Make inter-library loan more efficient for libraries

• CoPY Partners
  • Columbia University Libraries
  • University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  • Yale University Libraries
  • Research Libraries Group (RLG)
  • CPS Systems Inc.

• Key Elements of CoPY
  • Z39.50 broadcast search of Yale, Penn, and CUL OPACs
  • CoPY software based on CPS URSA
    (Universal Resource Sharing Application)
    to manage transactions
  • Customized interfaces between CoPY and local circulation systems
    (no double transactions)
  • Patron authentication linked to CoPY

• Basic CoPY Process
  • Reader searches "combined" OPAC and sends online request
  • Owning library receives "picklist"
  • Owning library retrieves and sends book to reader's library
    (or direct to faculty borrower)
  • CoPY tracks transactions, interacts with circulation systems,
    sends e-mail notices to readers

• CoPY Policies
  • 4 week loan
  • 1 renewal
  • Items can be recalled
  • Readers eligible to borrow books from CUL are eligible for CoPY
  • Only material that circulates for 4 week loan or longer
    is available on CoPY

• CoPY Pilot Project Milestones
  • 3/98 -- Searching module completed
  • 4/98 -- Request management completed
  • 6/98 -- Interfaces to circulation operational and approved
  • 6/98 -- Testing
  • 7/98-6/99 -- Operational pilot
  • 7/99+ -- Expand CoPY to more libraries?

• Issues still to be worked out include
  • Requesting specific volumes
  • Requesting journal articles
  • Deputy borrowers
  • Security for patron mailing address

• Work for CUL Committees
  • CoPY OPAC interface design and messages
  • Interactions between CoPY and CLIO
  • Workflows and procedures
  • Testing
  • Communication with library users