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| Revised | : | January 5, 2006 (mc) |
| Version | : | 6.3 and greater |
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INFO: Setting Lending Priorities for ISO ILL
January 5, 2006
SUMMARY
When searching RLG's Eureka database using the Z39.50 functionality within ILLiad, ILLiad will automatically create lending strings based on the available lenders for a request and the priorities you've assigned for each lender. These priorities are used only when the system generates a lending string using the Z39.50 Search form in ILLiad, and only when connected to RLG's Eureka database.
ASSIGNING LENDER PRIORITIES
From the Address Maintenance Form, open a site that is an RLG ISO ILL site. If ISO is enabled for that site, you will see 2 edit boxes labelled ISO Article Priority and ISO Loan Priority. These will contain a number if you have never set them equal to the default in the LenderPriorityDefaultValue key (which defaults to 10).
Changing priorities is as simple as changing the numbers in the 2 boxes and hitting Save Changes. You can have as many different priority levels as you want.
NOTES ON PRIORITIES AND AUTOMATIC LENDER STRINGS
When ILLiad generates the lender string from the available sites, it orders them by priority first, then randomly within similar priorities, with a maximum of 5 lenders automatically generated. For example, if you have 5 available sites: A, B, C, D, and E, ranked this way with Article Priorities:
| Site | Article Priority |
| A | 2 |
| B | 1 |
| C | 2 |
| D | 3 |
| E | 2 |
An example lender string would be:
B, C, A, E, D
B would always be first and D would always be last, with A, C, and E, since they all share a priority of 2, being randomized in order each time.
Each time you click the record, the lending string is generated from scratch, overwriting any changes you have made to the lending string.
