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OACIS
Survey of Middle Eastern Libraries Background
and Internet Connectivity: (1)
Is your library connected to the Internet? ___ Currently have access ___ Plan to connect to Internet in
_____ yrs ___ No near-term plans to connect to
Internet Comments________________________________ If your library is not currently
connected to Internet, there is no need to fill out remainder of survey. (2)
Does your library have: (choose all that apply) ___ Web access? ___ E-mail access? Comments________________________________ (3)
Who has Internet connections in your library?
___ Some staff ___ All staff ___ Users of your library? Comments________________________________ (4)
Where do they have connections? ___ At staff desks? ___ At public reading areas? Other________________________________ (5)
Does your library have access to secure FTP? [FTP is File-Transfer-Protocol, a
means to securely transfer files over the Internet] ___ Yes ___ No Comments________________________________ Serials,
Cataloging, and Online Holdings: For the next set of questions, serial means:
journal, newspapers and other periodicals ; cataloging means a list including
Title, and if known: Place of
Publication, Publisher, and/or Beginning Year ; and holdings means a listing of
issues owned by a library of a particular serial. (e.g.
v.20:no.6(1972)-v.50:no.7/8(2004) (1)
Are your serials cataloged? ___ Yes ___ No Comments________________________________ If your library does not catalog its
serials, there is no need to fill out remainder of survey. (2)
What form of cataloging? ___ MARC? ___ Other cataloging
standard?_______________ ___ Local system? Comments________________________________ (3)
Are the catalog records for your serials: (choose all that apply) ___ In electronic form? ___ Online? ___ In print? Comments________________________________ (4)
Have you recorded the holdings of your serials? ___ Yes ___ No Comments________________________________ (5)
If Yes for number 4, are the holdings of your serials available: (choose all that apply) ___ In electronic form? ___ Online? ___ In print? ___ Connected to the catalog listing
for the title? Comments________________________________ (6)
If your library catalog is online, is your library software system (choose all
that apply) ___ Purchased from a software
company (if so, which one?) (e.g. Endeavor, VTLS, etc.) ___ Homebuilt software? ___ Shared with other libraries in
your region? ___ Using UNICODE? (7)
If your library catalog is online, what would make it easy for you to
contribute your catalog records to OACIS? ___ Web form for entry of your
records manually? ___ Training in extracting catalog
records from your online system and sending your extract via
file-transfer-protocol? ___ Other? ________________________________ Document
delivery and Interlibrary Loan: For the next set of questions, Interlibrary loan
means a cooperative activity whereby a library that does not own a serial, or a
particular issue of a serial may request a photocopy of an article from that
serial to be sent to them from a library that does own the issue of that
serial. This photocopy delivery is in
response to a request by a library patron. (1)
Do you have online access to the catalogs of other libraries in your area or
region? ___ Yes ___ No Comments________________________________ (2)
Are you currently supplying copies of serial articles through interlibrary loan
to any other library whether in your region or elsewhere in the world? (choose
all that apply) ___ In your country? ___ In your region? ___ Beyond your region? ___ Not doing interlibrary loan? ___ Other?
___________________________ (3)
If your library were offered an opportunity to participate in an interlibrary
loan experiment, what would make it easy for you to do so? ___ Restricting ILL to only
libraries outside the region? ___ Restricting ILL to only library
within the region? ___ Staff training on ILL practices? ___ Assistance in establishing
regional ILL policies? ___ Other? ________________________________ For
questions about the survey, please contact Randa al-Chidiac, Systems Librarian
University of Balamand and OACIS Intern. Please
return completed survey: Via Fax: to: OACIS at (203) 432-8527 OR Via International Mail to: OACIS Yale
University Library 130
Wall Street, PO Box 208240 New
Haven, CT 06520-8240 USA OR Via email to: Randa al-Chidiac: before
27 July 2005 at randa.al-chidiac@yale.edu after
28 July 2005 at randa.alchidiac@balamand.edu.lb For
additional information on OACIS, contact: Ann Okerson Associate University Librarian Yale University Library 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 USA Telephone:
(203) 432-1764 Fax:
(203) 432-8527 Email:
ann.okerson@yale.edu or Simon Samoeil Curator, Near East Collection Yale University Library 130 Wall Street, PO Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 USA Telephone: (203) 432-1799 Fax: (203) 432-7231 Email: simon.samoeil@yale.edu
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