Ariel: Internet Transmission Software for Document Delivery

Sheau‐yueh J. Chao (City University of New York)

Collection Building

ISSN: 0160-4953

Article publication date: 1 September 2002

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Chao, S.J. (2002), "Ariel: Internet Transmission Software for Document Delivery", Collection Building, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 136-136. https://doi.org/10.1108/cb.2002.21.3.136.1

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited


A basic overview of recent literature about libraries and cooperation, electronic services, networking, document delivery services and interlibrary loan provisions reveals that much of this literature focuses on promoting resource sharing in historical context with very little information on actual accounts or procedures.

Access versus Assets: A Comprehensive Guide to Resource Sharing for Academic Librarians, published by the American Library Association in 1993, has provided detailed information about the range of cooperative services and technology that college and university libraries were providing in their endeavor to improve interlibrary loan services. In Chapter 7 of this book (“Approaches to Document Delivery”), the Research Libraries Group’s (RLG) Ariel software was highlighted as a “promising approach to electronic document delivery”. Since that time Ariel has become the most efficient method for scanning, transmitting and receiving documents over the Internet.

Ariel: Internet Transmission Software for Document Delivery is the first book dedicated to Ariel, with practical accounts of procedures and experiences from libraries that are using the software both in the USA and elsewhere, including South Africa and Pakistan. This comprehensive volume covers all aspects of the adoption of Ariel, including purchasing decisions; installing the software; training library staff; choosing scanners and related equipment; arranging consortia to share Ariel files; setting up protocols or agreements between borrowing and lending institutions; networking in state, regional and sub‐regional levels; copyright issues and more.

This book is an excellent source for potential users of the Ariel software, as well as librarians and staff in charge of interlibrary and electronic document delivery services.

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