Getting It System Toolkit

Hello Everyone,

Sometimes things take a bit longer than expected, but like a good dry red wine, it’s worth the wait…

Thanks to beta-testing, the GIST team has a list of a few bugs to fix before releasing the Acquisitions Manager – this also gives us some extra time to better prepare our documentation for how to implement the latest GIST product – an acquisitions module inside ILLiad that includes budget/fund management, and the conspectus.

Stay tuned – the documentation will be evolving with new videos – thanks to Tim Bowersox’s talent for captivate, camtasia, and prezi.

All that said, you have time to prepare: Planning and description.

• Getting necessary APIs from OCLC and Amazon.
• Preparing various sets of OCLC symbols for your consortial partners,
• Most importantly, encouraging the dialogue and workflow tours between ILL and acquisitions – this is also a great time to review data from 2011 to see how various criteria – such as purchasing when no library holdings in group 2 or 3 – might impact the year ahead.

Also in the works – watch for GIST at the OCLC International ILLiad Conference in March.

Thanks for your continued interest in GIST – watch for more on the releasing of the Acquisitions Manager in the next few weeks.

Best wishes,

Cyril

Welcome to the new home of the Getting It System Toolkit!

The GIST development team at SUNY Geneseo is pleased to announce that the GIST Acquisitions Manager has been made available for beta testing! This new version of GIST transforms ILLiad into a full fledged acquisitions module, combining ILLiad’s request management features with addons for:

• Budget management, saving you time by even selecting funds at order based upon a user’s department or status
• Vendor management, including 20 preloaded vendors for quick ordering such as Amazon, GOBI, and TitleSource3
• Collection building profiles, featuring the same Conspectus-driven recommendation engine as our Gift and Deselection Manager
• Item by item invoice management right from within each ILLiad request

Thanks to the support of Atlas Systems and OCLC, these addons are powered by new standalone GIST database tables that can be installed on your local or OCLC-hosted servers. You no longer have to use ILLiad transaction fields. (Installation details will be provided during the full release of the Acquisitions Manager.)

Last, and certainly not least, the Acquisitions Manager includes new versions of the GIST ILLiad webpages that are designed to work with these new database tables. They also include a new “Find My Item” widget that gives users the ability to search by title and author keywords from within the ILLiad request form. This can greatly improve request accuracy and the number of requests you can automate through Direct Request.

Stay tuned–we’re planning a full release of the Acquisitions Manager the first week of December!

Learn More

• View interactive demos and a workflow overview
• Begin planning to implement the Acquisitions Manager at your library
• Want to be a beta tester? Contact the GIST Development Team
• Post your comments, questions, and customizations for every GIST component in our forums