We have an in-house designed form that emails itself to our generic email address. It HASN'T gotten us away from paper but speeds up the requests getting to us.

 

We include a text box on our forms so clients can just cut and paste references from various databases rather than filling in each piece of information manually, and so they can include more than one req. per form (to decrease some paper and increase speed at users' end).

 

Feel free to look at our generic form - shared with a general web page for our local consortia.

 

 

Good luck!

 

>>> On 2010/01/06 at 12:32 PM, in message <578474851001060932p31babe12q82dcd6df9c27dc74@mail.gmail.com>, Megan Griffin <griffma@EMAIL.UNC.EDU> wrote:

Hi Everyone -


Sorry for cross-posting. I'm hoping to tap into the Collective Brain for some advice. We're looking to move away from document-based request forms for databases and serials that our selectors submit to the Acquisitions units.


Ideas we've tossed around: asking selectors to fill out bib record templates in our ILS (III), a web-based database on our intranet, MS Access-based forms stored on shared network drives.


What kind of systems do y'all have in place? What kind of software did/do you use to make it happen and maintain it? Any particular (dis)advantages? We realize there is no holy grail here. We're just trying to get away from a paper-based workflow.


I'm happy to collect responses and post a summary in a few days.


Thanks for any advice you can pass along!
- Megan


Megan A. Griffin
E-Resources Access Librarian
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB 3938
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919)962-0162