If you want to be able to move more articles thru Ariel, why not simply scan the articles from any other scanner, save to a shared network drive, then import and send thru the Ariel computers you have when they are available.
Rebecca A Mock IUPUI University Library (IUP) Collections & Information Access Group Interlibrary Services / Document Delivery 755 W Michigan St Indianapolis, IN 46202-5195 317-278-2595 rm...@iupui.edu ul...@iupui.edu "The slightest thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind" ~ Douglas Adams 1952-2001 (h2g2) "You want weapons? We're in a library! Books - best weapons in the world." ~ Dr. Who (Tooth & Claw, 2006) -----Original Message----- From: arie-l-boun...@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:arie-l-boun...@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cindy Harper Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:50 PM To: arie-l@u.washington.edu; rapi...@rapidill.org Cc: Deborah Wagner; Mike Poulin; Franklin Gavett; Kim Gunther; Ann Ackerson Subject: [ARIE-L] Alternatives to adding Ariel licenses? Hi. We recently joined RapidILL, and in preparation for increased lending requests from Rapid, we purchased a Bookeye Scanner with BSCAN software. We currently have a fast ADF-capable Bell & Howell scanner connected to our ledning Ariel machine. We also have an Ariel receive (actually, this license could send, but it does that rarely) station in borrowing. We put the BookEye on a second lending computer and installed B-Scan. B-Scan allows you to scan the articles into Ariel, if you have a copy of Ariel on the BScan machine. Our lending coordinator wants to be able to have one person scanning via ADF and one scanning via BookEye simultaneously, so she wants to enable Ariel on the BookEye machine too. I'm looking at alternatives to shelling out $1295 for a third Ariel license. I perceive that more of our traffic will be going Odyssey over time, and that we should be weaning ourselves off of Ariel if possible. Of course, I don't have the stats on what other libraries have Odyssey vs. Ariel. I thought of making the second scanner machine use the borrowing Ariel copy, but borrowing needs to sit at that machine regularly to process Ariel articles in ILLIAD. I wondered if there is a way to share a copy of Ariel on a single terminal-server-like machine that runs both the BScan software and Ariel and ILLIAD, and can run two processes of ILLIAD at the same time - unlikely, but I thought I'd ask. Or are there ways we can drive more of our traffic to Odyssey? Can we rely on sending most of our requests via the BookEye and Odyssey, and scan all Ariel requests on the Ariel ADf/flatbed scanner? It is possible to save the BSCAN scans via the network to the Ariel machine, and later, send them from there. Of course, you'd have to re-enter the evvelope (address, patron) info in Ariel, unless one could devise something that could read the BSCAN saved file and send that to Ariel via a script - I guess I should look at what another copy of BSCAN would cost, but I understand that's very pricey. Thanks for any ideas. -- Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 _______________________________________________ ARIE-L mailing list Mail the list at ARIE-L@u.washington.edu Unsubscribe at http://www.arie-l.org#subscribers Archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/arie-l@u.washington.edu/ _______________________________________________ ARIE-L mailing list Mail the list at ARIE-L@u.washington.edu Unsubscribe at http://www.arie-l.org#subscribers Archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/arie-l@u.washington.edu/
