ILS Functionality and findIT

The software we are using for findIT has the ability to communicate and interoperate with your library's Integrated Library System (ILS). This interoperation automates some manual Interlibrary Loan (ILL) tasks and will make the ILL process much easier for your library's ILL and circulation staff members.

In order for the functionality to work, both findIT and your library's ILS need to support standards or protocols. Once we determine what standards your ILS supports, our vendor for findIT will be able to build 'connectors' that will provide the automation. Here, for example, is a list of connectors followed by the standards or protocols that our vendor could use to build the connectors:

• Refresh item level data: Z39.50 with holdings, Native with live record lookup
• Authenticate patron account: SIP2, NCIP, Native (OpenSRF, CGI, etc.)
• Place hold in ILS: SIP2, NCIP, Native (OpenSRF, CGI, etc.)
• Capture items for holds in ILS: SIP2, NCIP, Native (OpenSRF, CGI, etc.)
• Place item on hold shelf in ILS: SIP2, NCIP, Native (OpenSRF, CGI, etc.)
• Check out and check in items to patrons in ILS: SIP2, Native (OpenSRF, CGI, etc.)

The following survey is designed to help us determine what standards your ILS supports. 

Who should respond to this survey?
If your library is not part of a network and if your library is interested in participating in findIT ILL, called 'requestIT CT,' then we would like to hear from you. If your library is part of Bibliomation, CONNcert, Library Connection, LION, SECONN, or CONSULS/CSCU, you do not need to respond. We either have been or will be in touch with people who administer your consortium and we will get the answers from them.

Your library's technical services staff or IT staff may be able to answer these questions. In some cases, you may have to contact your ILS vendor's helpdesk to get the answers.

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* 1. What is your library's name (or your network name)?

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* 2. So that we can contact you if we have any further questions, what is your name?

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* 3. What is your e-mail address?

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* 4. What ILS is your library using?
(Some vendors offer more than one ILS product, so please be as specific as possible. For example, responding with "III" is okay, but responding with "III-Sierra" will be much more helpful.)

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* 5. Does your ILS have Z39.50 with holdings?

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* 6. Does your ILS have SIP2 (Standard Interchange Protocol, version 2)?

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* 7. Either in addition to or instead of Z39.50, does your ILS have a native live-record-lookup protocol?

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* 8. Does your ILS have NCIP (NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol)?

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* 9. Does your ILS have OpenSRF (Open Scalable Request Framework and pronounced “open surf”)?

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* 10. Does your ILS have CGI (Common Gateway Interface)?

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* 11. Does your ILS have or support any other standards? Please list them below.

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