Hello
I am looking for some information on ordering systems used by other academic libraries.
At University of Portsmouth we are currently reviewing our book ordering process (for print and electronic books), and are looking to make things more streamlined for our users. Currently our academics can use Coutts' Oasis Requestor system to place a book order, this is sent through to the library and is approved by their faculty librarian before passing through to Coutts as an EDI order.
Anything which is a non-standard order, such as out of prints, urgent orders or something not available via Coutts, is dealt with by our library procurement team separately and has to be requested via an email or on an order card.
What we are looking to do is have one online interface which academics can order anything on - books, e-books, urgent orders, multimedia, requests for new journals etc. The system would check our holdings for what is already in stock before sending the request information to the correct part of the library, whether that would be to Oasis for approval, the faculty librarian, directly to the procurement team or wherever. As far as the academic is concerned there would be one place to order anything, although we may still deal with the order differently once it reaches the library depending or what it is for.
I am aware that we could do more with Oasis than we currently do, which I am investigating, but I don't think any supplier's site will be a place where academics could order literally anything. Does anyone use a system like this, which allows academic staff to request truly anything for the library to order in one place?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Hannah Britcher
Team Leader, Procurement & Metadata
University Library
University of Portsmouth
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