Re: Millennium ILL

[albertson@xxxxxxxxxx]

        Macalester College started using the Millenium ILL module last 
January.  As to the pretransition worksheets that I can remember filling 
out, most of the information on them related to webforms.  I remember 
making decisions on what types of materials we wanted to have forms for; 
e.g. book, article, book chapter, etc.  We also made decisions on what 
information we asked patrons to put on the forms.  We are part of a 
consortium with about 10 other libraries so there was some difficulty in 
making the forms work for all the libraries as we were going to be sharing 
forms. 


        There was also difficulty caused by how we were limited in our 
ability to tweek the forms to what we wanted.  There are a limited number 
of fields that you can use on a Innovative form so we had to do some 
picking and choosing of what information was most important.  We also 
changed the names of some of the fields which I remember being difficult to 
do, but now I forget why.  Feel free to take a look at our forms.  Our 
article request form is at http://clicnet.clic.edu/illj and our book form 
is at http://clicnet.clic.edu/illb.

        The only interaction with the OCLC Ill system is that Millenium can 
send requests from the ILL module into OCLC.  Millenium has the options to 
send directly to the review file, directly to a profile, or directly to a 
lender.  However, we only use the direct to Review file option so I can 
only speak to the functionality of this feature, and it does work.  Also, 
one has to be careful about having information that was submitted via the 
forms into the ILL module match up with fields in an OCLC request.  All 
updating of a request after it is sent to OCLC has to be done in both OCLC 
and Millenium, there is no more communication between the two.

        You also asked about using CLIO along with Millenium.  Millenium 
only handles the borrowing side of the ILL operation, so we use CLIO to 
track all of our lending requests.  Also, if you have borrowing request 
come in from any source other than the webform and you do not key them into 
Millenium then it is necessary to track them in a a manner other than with 
Millenium.  For example, we still use CLIO to track requests that come to 
us from Firstsearch.

        As the ILL module is rather new there are several bugs and features 
still being worked out.  We have experienced many problems of the module 
not working as it should and these have been the greatest challenge of 
using the module.  When it does work properly I feel that our service to 
our patrons has greatly improved.


-Aaron Albertson

Aaron Albertson
Library Specialist
Public Services/ Interlibrary Loan
(651) 696-6530
albertson@xxxxxxxxxx




--On Monday, June 03, 2002 1:35 PM -0700 "Kezele, Susan" 
<skezele@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:rr

>	 I'm seeking advice and personal experiences from other libraries who
> use the ILL module in Millennium. We're migrating to Millennium this
> summer. I could use advice on the pre-transition worksheets, how the
> module works with the OCLC interlibrary loan system, whether libraries
> use the ILL module along with other management software such as CLIO,
> pitfalls to avoid, and problems to anticipate. You can contact me off
> list but I'm sure others would find your insight helpful. Thanks for
> responding!
> Susan Kezele
> Seattle University Law Library
> (206) 398-4227
> skezele@xxxxxxxxxx
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Aaron Albertson
Library Specialist
(651) 696-6530
albertson@xxxxxxxxxx