Dear all,
We are also looking into electronic signatures at Reading University
Library. I would be interested to know what the following libraries are
doing, because I had heard that they had already started using
electronic signatures.
Kings College - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/iss/library/services/ill.html
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/infosheets/docdel.pdf
Holloway -
http://web.rhul.ac.uk/Information-Services/Library/about/interlibraryloa
ns.html
Newcastle - http://www.newcastle.ac.uk/library/ill_web.php
If anyone has any more information, please could you let me know?
Many thanks,
Leanne
Leanne Evetts
Document Delivery Co-ordinator
Main Library, University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 223
Reading RG6 6AE
Tel: (0118) 378 8786
www.library.rdg.ac.uk
-----Original Message-----
From: Atherton, Dorothy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 November 2004 14:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Electronic signatures for online requesting
Hi Annette
We too have been trying to look into this. It makes a mockery of having
an online requesting system, doesn't it, when users still have to print
off and sign, and we have to wait for that signature before we can
proceed. As far as I can make out, it's theoretically possible to have
an electronic signature, but the authentication that would make it legal
is not yet available. (BL tell me they are working on a solution, but
how far down the road? I'd be very interested to hear anything useful
you find out.
Regards,
Dorothy Atherton
Services Manager, Document Supply & Delivery
Boots Library
Nottingham Trent University
Goldsmith St
Nottingham
NG1 5LS
Tel:0115 848 2889
-----Original Message-----
From: Monica Crump [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 08 November 2004 13:30
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Electronic signatures for online requesting
Dear Annette,
This is something that we have wanted for a long time also - we use
ILLOS online request form and our users are very frustrated that they
still have to sign a physical bit of paper before their request can be
processed.
I asked the British Library about electronic signatures recently and was
given to understand they would not be acceptable. I would be very
interested to hear what you find out!
All the best,
Monica
Monica Crump
Sub-Librarian Bibliographic Services
James Hardiman Library
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway,
Ireland.
Tel: +353-91-493765
Fax: +353-91-494528
http://www.library.nuigalway.ie
-----Original Message-----
From: For interlibrary-loan and document supply services.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annette Moore
Sent: 08 November 2004 11:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Electronic signatures for online requesting
At Sussex University Library we are currently using Talis Prism for
online requesting of Interlibrary Loans. The online requesting works
well for books, but our users often want photocopies sent to their home
address or campus pigeon hole which is not possible without having
signed the copyright declaration. I would be interested to hear from
any libraries that have set up, or are thinking about setting up,
electronic signatures for requesting photocopies through an online
Interlibrary Request service even if you are not using TALIS Prism.
The CILIP web pages have indicated for sometime that it is legal to use
electronic signatures provided the authentication is capable of
identifying the signatory:
<http://www.cilip.org.uk/committees/laca/e_sigs.html>
so I am trying to find out if the Interlending community has come to any
agreement on what kind of authentication would be acceptable.
Regards,
Annette Moore
Annette Moore
Interlibrary Requests
University of Sussex Library
University of Sussex
Brighton
BN1 9QL
Tel: 01273 678162
Fax: 01273 678441
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