Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: FW: ASERL AGS Proposal

[John Burger (jburger]

Hey folks –

 

Please see the note below from Jacob at LSU regarding their decision to not proceed with Article Galaxy Scholar.  Are others encountering the same issue?  If so, perhaps we should arrange a huddle to compare notes.

 

Thanks.

 

 

--jeb

 

John Burger, Executive Director

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)

c/o Robert W. Woodruff Library

540 Asbury Circle, Suite 316

Atlanta, GA  30322

 

404-218-4207 -- cellular

 

 

 

From: Jacob Fontenot <jacobfontenot [at] lsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 12:30 PM
To: John Burger <jburger [at] aserl.org>
Subject: FW: ASERL AGS Proposal

 

Hi John,

 

Hope things are going well in Atlanta! Here’s that update about LSU and Article Galaxy Scholar.

 

LSU is not  signing up for now. The show stopper is that when a patron clicks the Article Galaxy Scholar link on their EDS search they lose the option to use ILL. They click the AGS link and see a custom message from us that warns that using AGS will cost the library for each use.  But at that point the patron doesn’t get an option to choose ILL – so the warning is pointless. The patron would have to click the Back button a couple of times to get back to their EDS search results then choose the Request through ILL option. OK in 1999 but not today.

 

We want patrons to get that custom message then get to choose Article Galaxy or ILL. Reprints Desk claims no other library has asked for this. Could you let me know if any other ASERL libraries are looking into AGS?  I’d like to get in touch with them to hopefully put some pressure on Reprints Desk to add this feature.

 

Thanks,

 

Jacob Fontenot
Head, Interlibrary Loan Services

LSU Libraries
Louisiana State University
241B LSU Library, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
225-578-6722
jacobfontenot [at] lsu.edu | lsu.edu | http://www.lib.lsu.edu/services/ill