Tag Archives: ILLiad Borrowing

CCSU’s “ONE SEARCH” database

I had some fun today working on the Borrowing Review queue. There was one request in there that had “Journal Article” as the journal title.

I couldn’t isolate it by doing a Google search. So when I went to the Databases page, I tried One Search. Its in the General Topics/Most Popular Databases list at the top.

I entered the article title and then selected different groups of databases to search. And I found it in under one minute. Once I had the journal title, I plugged that in to ILLiad, did an OCLC search and ordered the article.

This was terrific!

Mobile ILLiad notifications

Patrons now have the ability to receive any notifications from ILLiad to their RSS readers, such as Google Reader, Outlook etc. Now if they have a cell phone that has a mobile reader, they can receive their notifications there too.

How do they do this? First, they need to login to their ILLiad account. Next in each internet browser, you will usually see the RSS feed iconrss_feed_iconsomewhere on the page. When you click on it and select “ILLiad Notification” you use the resulting url as the feed for the reader. I plan on showing all of you how to do this, since I am sure we may have some questions about it. Debbie created a little “movie” that explains how to grab the feed and will be posting it on the library blog.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH_rk5GybOc]