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Re: docster: instant document delivery




daniel,

ok. that answers the core of my question, that your vision for docster is
an alternative (i.e., competitor) to oclc and other similar systems like
rlin. this is a serious issue, because oclc has a tremendous amount of
inertia and member loyalty, very different from a 17 year old kid swapping
the latest ... god i'm old, i don't even know what they listen to. anyway
...

i can see docster being used on the library fringe by innovators like
yourself, but in order for a system like this - one based on the value
inherent in the WHOLE network - to succeed it needs a critical mass of
users, right? so if the present critical mass of users are oclc member
libraries, then what is the docster strategy for getting them to switch
from oclc?

- adam






                                                                                              
                                                                                              
                                                                                              
                                                                                              
                                                                                              
                                                                                              
                                                                                              


                                                                                             
                    Daniel Chudnov                                                           
                    <daniel.chudnov        To:     adam_chandler@usgs.gov                    
                    @yale.edu>             cc:     oss4lib-list@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU          
                                           Subject:     Re: docster: instant document        
                    04/17/00 03:09         delivery                                          
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 adam_chandler@usgs.gov wrote:

  oclc: i'm just looking at our own workflow here at the usgs national
  wetlands research center. our ill person searches for items through ill.
  then she makes the request based on reciprocal borrowing arrangements,
our
  oclc regional affiliation,  and so forth. sometimes the requested item
  comes through ariel, sometimes it comes through the mail. let me put it
  this way:

  what IS the role of oclc ill in the docster scenario? if the answer is
"it
  has no role" that answer does not cover the reality of moving from what
we
  do today (oclc) to moving to the docster model.


I don't know very much about the way you use OCLC because we do very
little of it here (I work at a medical library, so we're mostly docline
with a little RLIN).  I think, though, that the article already addresses
the role of funding transfers and the need for request routing and such.
If those (paying/receiving funds, routing requests through affiliates) are
services for which you count on OCLC today, there's no reasons a
docster-like application couldn't make use of the same role being played
by OCLC.

Keep in mind though that "The reality of moving...to the docster model" is
whatever reality you want it to be... it doesn't exist yet. :)

  -dc






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