OCLC ILL Basics and Tricks

OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing

Welcome to the supporting web site for the OCLC ILL Basics and Tricks courses. The content at this site will grow and change as the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing system does. For now the ILL Basics portion is complete and the Tricks portion is still in development. For any questions, comments, suggestions or concerns it's best to email me directly at:

mbeatty@wils.wisc.edu

ILL Basics

Lesson #1, Introduction to OCLC, Constant Data, Searching WorldCat
Lesson #2, Looking at Holdings, Sending Request
Lesson #3, Basic ILL Cycle, the Request Manager and Batch Processing
Lesson #4, ILL Guidelines, Union List Information and ILL Policies

ILL Tricks

Lesson #1, Multiple Constant Datas, IFM, WorldCat.org
Lesson #2, ILL Policies and Registry, Deflection, Statistics
Lesson #3, Custom Holdings
Lesson #4, Patron Initiated ILL and Direct Request

ILL Tricks content still in development, we have place holder pages so check back for full course material soon.