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SEND 2.0 – A New Version of an Interlibrary Loan Management System

Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) Library launched its first application for interlibrary loan called SEND in 2002. SEND is an acronym in Croatian for 'System for electronic document delivery' and it was intended for Rudjer Boskovic Institute employees for placing orders for the items not available at RBI Library, as well as for other Croatian libraries for requesting documents from RBI Library. In order to modernize and expand functionality of the service initial application was upgraded to new version which was released in March 2014. The application based on open source technologies is developed by RBI Library. Unlike previous version SEND 2.0 is at disposal in form of SaaS (Software as a Service) to other interested libraries (Croatian or foreign). As Croatian academic community use AAI@EduHr unique user identifier for accessing different databases and services, it was implemented for SEND authentication as well. For other libraries separate registration is provided. SEND 2.0 enables communication between participating libraries, while users can send requests to home library alone. It also automates handling and tracking of requests, enables easy delivery of digital documents when it is in accordance with copyright law, whilst statistics module provides simple gathering and analyses of data.

Libraries ; interlibrary loan ; Rudjer Boskovic Institute ; Croatia

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