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- Resource Sharing
- June 07
- Issue: 213
Auto Deflection of E-Audio Books Now Available
The format e-audio book has been added to the deflection formats for automated resource sharing deflection.
Deflection will streamline your ILL workflow, and reduce turn-around time, by automatically moving some requests away from libraries that cannot fill them. Instead of a request remaining in the pending status waiting for potential lenders to manually deny the request, the Request Manager skips lenders based on deflection policies, and automatically moves the request to the next lender in a matter of seconds. This feature benefits all users of WorldCat Resource Sharing, OCLC ILLiad and other resource sharing systems that send requests through OCLC Resource Sharing.
For requests to be deflected you must set up separate deflection records in the Policies Directory.
Through the Policies Directory, lenders are able to set deflection criteria for borrowing requests based on three criteria:
- Archival/Mixed Material
- Book
- Computer File
- E-Audio Book
- E-Serial
- E-Text
- Government Document
- Integrated Resource
- Internet Resource
- Kit
- Manuscript
- Map
- Microform
- Musical Score
- Newspaper
- Serial
- Sound Recording
- Sound Recording - Cassette
- Sound Recording - CD
- Sound Recording - LP
- Visual Material
- Visual Material - DVD
- Visual Material - VHS
Deflection policies read from information contained in the bibliographic record for individual items. OCLC is unable to perform deflection based on specific collections such as Reference, Genealogy, Juvenile Materials, etc.
Resource Sharing Contact Information
Please contact Jon Penn, Resource Sharing Librarian at Nylink, with questions. Jon is available via email (pennj@nylink.org) or phone (800-342-3353/518-443-5444).