Re: Academic Library Services Question

From: Peter Murray (peter.murray@simmons.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 14 2001 - 09:15:27 PST


--On Tuesday, February 13, 2001 5:02 PM -0500 Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro@yale.edu> wrote:
> I would be interested in finding out about any law school libraries
> that use Ariel or other imaging technologies to send copies of library
> materials to faculty and/or students, and details of such services.

I don't know if you are aware of this, but Ohio State has written an add-on to Ariel that takes an Ariel transmission, converts it to PDF, and provides an interface for patrons to retreive it from a web browser.

    Prospero is a Web-based document delivery system designed as a
    complement to the Ariel ® software system. [...]

    Prospero contains two modules. The first is a staff module runs on
    any Windows 2000/NT/98/95 and captures and converts Ariel files
    (TIFF images) to Web accessible documents (PDF files). [...] 

    The second module is a server-side / user interface which allows
    patrons to retrieve their documents using any Web browser.
    [From <http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/prospero/> ]

We don't use it at the law library where I work, but I've heard good things about it...

Peter

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Peter Murray, GSLIS Student
Peter.Murray@simmons.edu



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