Re: [IUG] Inventory Express

[Frances Dodd <fdodd at sfu dot ca>]

Hi Barbara,

Yes, we are using Inventory Express, with great success! It is useful 
on its own, or as a supplement to regular order loads, if your 
vendors are signed up. The vendors that have signed up with Inventory 
Express are: Amazon, Baker & Taylor, BWI, Coutts, Ingram, and Midwest 
Tape. And with our encouragement, more vendors will sign up in future.

We use Inventory Express to determine the vendor and to download the 
record. We launch a search in Millennium across multiple vendors then 
download the relevant record. It is very similary to Remote Search 
(Z39.50) if you have that product, but instead of searching 
catalogues, you search vendors. You still have to go to the vendor 
and place the order as a separate step, but Inventory Express cuts 
down the search process plus automates record creation.

Let me know if you have other questions.

Frances

At 12:12 PM 02/01/2008, you wrote:
> Is anyone out there using Inventory Express?  If so, what has your
> experience been?  We are trying to determine whether it would be to our
> advantage to use this product.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Barbara J. Storch
> West Palm Beach Public Library
> 100 Clematis Street
> West Palm Beach, FL 33401
> Telephone 561-868-7721
> Fax 561-868-7706
> E-mail: storchb at mycitylibrary dot org
>
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Frances Dodd, Technical Services Librarian
Simon Fraser University Library
8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C.  V5A 1S6  Canada
Email: fdodd at sfu dot ca / Tel: 778-782-7325 / Fax: 778-782-6579