Request Service to Expand to Undergraduates

September 6, 2000 Author: CDLCategories:

The Request Service for books from the catalog and articles from CDL-mounted databases will soon also be available to undergraduates. Undergraduates may submit up to 5 requests per day (Faculty and Graduates Students can request up to 20 items a day).

The release schedule is as follows:
September 11-19: Testing by Library Staff (send all comments/suggestion to cdl@www.cdlib.org)
September 21: Public Release Date

For additional details about the extension to undergraduates please contact your campus Request liaison, listed below.

Additional changes to Request include:

New interface design for the following screens: email confirmation and review page
Addition of a “need by date” option (the user must select a date after which they will no longer need the item in the event of a delay in delivery)
Addition of SRLF barcodes (implementation is dependent on loading from ORION2)
UCLA patrons can now request SRLF items
Multiple titles problem is now fixed (foreign titles with multiple ISSN numbers)
Chapter requests from BIOSIS and PsycINFO are available

Request Liaisons:

UCB – C. Rubens
UCD – G. Nichols
UCI – L. Weinberger/M. Tapper
UCLA – E. Adams
UCR – J. Moores
UCSD – D. Kegel
UCSF – E. Amrine
UCSB – G. Johnson
UCSC – D. Turner