ILL and OCLC ftp program

[John Rutherford]

Yet another step further on this question. Once forms are setup
to accept Ill input from users, and transmitted to a cgi for saving
or mail to an ILL Librarian, has anyone taken the OCLC code and
written programs/cgi's for then transmitting that to the OCLC ILL
sub system. I know of several commercial institutions that have
written this using the BER utilities that are available from OCLC's
ftp site, but has anyone actually created a set of scipts or programs
that make it easy to format input from forms into the format (ASN?)
that oclc requires for input to their system?

John Rutherford
Conn State Univ.

Alicia D. Abramson wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me to some good examples of ILL request forms on the
> Web as well as actual cgi scripts and descriptions of how the systems
> work?  We're interested in developing a Web based ILL request form as
> a way to automate this process and so I'm also interested in knowing
> both the advantages and drawbacks to this approach to automating ILL.
> (eg. are there compelling reasons why or why not to go this route?)
>
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