EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Who Are We?
• Why New System Consortium Model?
• History/Progress To Date
• Standards In Use/System Capabilities
• Z39.50 Searches
• Future Developments

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Who Are We?
• Memorial University of Newfoundland (1999)
• Dalhousie University (Killam Library, 1999)
• University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (1999)
• University of New Brunswick, Saint John (1999)
• Acadia University (2001)
• Mt. Allison University (2002)
• University of Prince Edward Island (2002)
• Université de Moncton (Summer 2004)

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Why New System Consortial Model?
• Aviso Replacement
• Council of Atlantic University Libraries
• Atlantic Scholarly Information Network (ASIN)
• Regional resource sharing
• Cost sharing
• Staff Time

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• History/Progress to Date
• December 1999 May 2004
• Three original members (MUN, DAL, UNB)
• Built common library database
• Servers system administration at MUN
• Agreement on joint policies
• Five system upgrades
• Four new sites

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1.2 Z39.50 Query
5. Item
1.1 NCIP Item Lookup
Searches ECRC AMICUS CISTI AEU
In Test With Sirsi
1.3 Z39.50 Response List of Lending Locations
1.1.2 NCIP Item Response
ECRC Relais System
2.1 Relais Messaging Request Item
2.2 Relais Messaging Item Response
3.2 GS Non- Supply Message Translated to ILL
Protocol ILL-ANSWER reason unfilled
in-use-on-loan
ECRC Consortial Member
3.1 ILL Protocol ILL-REQUEST Translated to GS
Request Message
4.2 ILL Protocol SHIPPED
ISO Systems (CISTI/AEU)
4.1 ILL Protocol ILL-REQUEST
University of Ottawa Aviso GS System
East Coast Relais Consortium Standards in
Use/System Capabilities
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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Z39.50 Searches
• OPACs autosearched (SIRSI, GEAC)
• Searches supported (control s, exact title,
  title first characters, title phrase, keyword
  title/author)
• Accuracy of searches, bibliographic hits

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)Relais
Control Number Searches
Control Numbers Memorial University(1,417,683 records) Acadia University(365,847 records)
LCCN only 206,631 (14) 67,465 (18)
ISBN/ISSN only 226,345 (16) 87,931 (24)
Both LCCN and ISBN/ISSN 550,439 (39) 98,280 (27)
Neither LCCN or ISBN/ISSN 434,268 (31) 112,171 (31)
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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Sample Z39.50 Searches on Memorial Catalogue
• Title Exact Match (united states history)
• Memorial University Z server result 2 records
• e.g. Pray, Kenneth Louis Moffatt United States
  History / 1906
• 2. Title First Characters (united states
  history)
• Memorial University Z server result 8 records
• e.g. Brown, W. Burlie. United States History
  a bridge to the world of ideas / 1960

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Sample Z39.50 Searches on Memorial Catalogue
• 3. Title Phrase (united states history)
• Memorial University Z server result 40 results
• e.g. The Oxford companion to United States
  history / 2001.
• 4. Title Keyword (united states history)
• Memorial University Z server result 1334
• Kessler-Harris, Alice. out to work, a history
  of wage-earning women in the United States /
  2003.

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Result
• Increase in number of single hit searches
• Decrease in number of searches performed
• Faster processing by Relais

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• Future Developments
• New members (Novanet Libraries)
• ISO compliance testing (OCLC)
• NCIP
• Open URL Resolver

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EAST COAST RELAIS CONSORTIUM (ECRC)

• URL
• http//boo.library.mun.ca/ecrc/ecrcwebpages/mainpa
  ge.htm
• Gwyn Pace, Chair
• ECRC Implementation Team
• gpace_at_dal.ca
• 902-494-6625