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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
PM
Please respond
to
daniel.chudnov
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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