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CoPY Introductory Presentation Slides
January 1998
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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
Last revision: 09/30/98
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