Re: WebSPIRS java

[David Stern <david.e.stern@yale.edu>]

I would like to officially request that the Automation Steering Committee
reconsider the priority of this topic.  The ability to seamlessly link from
citations to full text articles (and local holdings information) is an
essential part of our long-term vision of library service ... and has
become an expected service by users familiar with outside library services.  

Linking to local holdings using our official Web interface to the online
catalog seems to be the only reasonable way to provide logical and adequate
service.

  David


At 08:10 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Kimberly Parker wrote:
>Actually, it is correct.  SilverPlatter can't produce a link to the way
>Orbis on the Web (CrossPlex) requires the ISSN to be entered.  So, we're
>still using the old WebPac as the place to link to from SilverPlatter.  I
>informed spyul-list a while back of the situation:
>http://www.library.yale.edu/ecollections/spyul_archive/msg00046.html
>No one on spyul-list responded or suggested we drop the link altogether
>until a fix could be found.
>
>I've been having discussions with Fred Martz and Karen Reardon about ways
>to "redirect and reconfigure" incoming requests with ISSNs with hyphens and
>with nospace in them, since there are several vendors that we could have
>Orbis links from if we could do that.  So far, that action hasn't risen to
>the top of the pile of things to do.
>
>--Kim
>
>At 05:20 PM 9/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>Kim,
>>
>>I was looking at the java version of WebSPIRS today and I noticed that the
>>link to local holdings brings up a connection to webpac -- this isn't
>>correct, is it?
>>
>>Thanks, 
>>
>>Jennifer
>> 

David Stern
Director of Science Libraries and Information Services
Kline Science Library
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