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WorldCat Resource Sharing at a glance

WorldCat Resource Sharing helps OCLC libraries create, send, manage and track interlibrary loan requests and document orders.

Benefits

  • Simplify and extend the reach of your resource sharing capabilities
  • Reduce the time and effort spent by staff obtaining items
  • Achieve fill rates — 95 percent or more
  • Less training needed—contextual help is always a click away
  • Increase use of your collections
  • Enable secure, copyright-compliant delivery of large PDF files
  • No software updates—Web interface means you always have the latest version
  • Save both time and money: Use the Fee Management feature of WorldCat Resource Sharing and you reconcile resource sharing charges and receipts directly through your monthly OCLC invoice. You'll eliminate invoices and cheque writing to individual lending partners
  • Save costs with short-term access to e-books

Features

  • Automatic deflection options automatically skip lenders who cannot provide requested items, saving staff time and getting items to users more quickly
  • Integrated Fee Management simplifies billing with lending partners
  • Policies Directory lets you review other OCLC libraries’ lending rules and set your own
  • WorldCat searching offers basic, advanced and expert query of the definitive bibliographic and library holdings database
  • Request Manager keeps staff review of requests organised
  • Direct Request fulfillment sends borrowing requests directly into the system based on an institutional profile
  • Data re-use lets you create request workform templates, make presets of commonly used lenders, and store other text in macro-like form
  • Usage reports provide comprehensive statistics
  • An established network of thousands of libraries
  • Custom subscription pricing
  • Designed for low and high-volume interlibrary loan needs
  • Web-based interface with contextual help and online tutorials
  • Compliance with the ISO ILL standard
  • Short-term access to e-books

Requirements

  • System: Windows 2000 or Windows XP (Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows ME are also supported)
  • Hardware (minimum): 450 MHz Pentium
  • Web browser: Internet Explorer 5.5, 6.X (recommended); Netscape 7.0 or higher; JavaScript must be enabled
  • Memory: 64 MB RAM (minimum); 128MB or more (optimum)
  • Internet connection; High-speed (DSL or above) recommended

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