Monday, January 29, 2018

Relais Discovery to Delivery (D2D) a good option for automating Inter Library Loan, Document Delivery and Consortial Resource Sharing Services in libraries.



Relais Discovery to Delivery (D2D) a good option for automating Inter Library Loan, Document Delivery and Consortial Resource Sharing Services in libraries.
 
  Inter library Loan service

  Document Delivery service  
        
  Resource Sharing Service


Discovery to Delivery (Relais D2D) offered by Relais International’s product suite  a leading Interlibrary loan solution provider based in Ottawa, Canada, working with libraries for more than 20 years. It provides the facility of consortial resource sharing, managing inter library loan and document delivery services in libraries without minimal or no staff intervention. The hosted service allows library users to create and monitor their own ILL requests through the service webpages and through Relais windows staff client library staff can process ILL requests. Many libraries in USA, Canada and Australia are using Relais services. OCLC has also acquired Relais international for all above services to its member libraries.


Some features

  • It lets our users to search and request the needed resource available in various other institutions’ libraries which are members of consortium through a fully featured discovery interface without the intervention of library staff.
  • Library staff is now free from paper work involved in handling ILL and document delivery services.
  • It can handle high and low volumes of requests, streamline the process and provide better and faster service to users.
  • Integrates all the tasks like searching, request management, scanning the documents and delivery.
  • As it is based on modular open approach, so it provides libraries the option of combining the D2D system with other systems and softwares of libraries to maximize the use of their services.
  • It provides solutions for both big and small types of libraries.
  • Interfaces and interoperates with library’s integrated library management systems as well as with other resource sharing systems.
  • Relais’ Z39.50 automated search client can be configured to check your own local catalog, regional, national, international catalogs as well as subscribed databases and Google Books also from single portal.
  • Relais D2D interoperates seamlessly with following library management systems:
·         Evergreen
·         Ex Libris Aleph
·         Ex Libris Alma
·         Ex Libris Voyager
·         Innovative Millenium
·         Koha
·         Kuali OLE
·         SirsiDynix Symphony
·         SirsiDynix Unicorn
·         SirsiDynix Horizon
·         TLC
·         WorldShare Management Services


To know more: http://www.relais-intl.com/
                              https://www.oclc.org/en/d2d/features.html
                              

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