About
The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) focuses on optimizing workflow by leveraging systems to do more work while reducing the staff time necessary to make informed decisions and process materials.
- Free and open source tools and software
- Customizable configurations
- Automate evaluation and other processing
- Streamline decision-making and automate processing for;
- Acquisitions & Interlibrary Loan: Borrow & Buy Strategies
- Collection evaluation and processing of gifts, duplication detection and deselection, free ebook detection and more…
Selected SlideShare presentations
- GIST for ILLiad Webpages (April 2010 RRLC Workshop)
- GIST Gift and Deselection Manager (December 2010)
- Acquisitions Manager Preview (March 2011 OCLC ILLiad International Conference)
GIST Development Team @ SUNY Geneseo
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Tim Bowersox, Information Delivery Services Librarian
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Cyril Oberlander, Interim Director (Project Sponsor)
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Kate Pitcher, Head of Technical Services
- Mark Sullivan, Library Systems Administrator
Special Thanks
- The GIST project is partially funded by the Rochester Regional Library Council through the Regional Bibliographic Databases and Interlibrary Resource Sharing Program
- Many thanks to Atlas Systems for supporting the development of GIST for ILLiad and providing training and implementation services.
- Thanks to OCLC for providing expanded usage limits of the WorldCat Search API for GIST users and supporting the installation of the Acquisitions Manager ILLiad tables for hosted sites.
- Beta testing was conducted by Adam Traub (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- WorldCat API programming support was provided by Kyle Banerjee (Orbis Cascade Alliance) and Terry Reese (Oregon State University)

