Just to share another interlibrary loan source: Racer.
http://racer.scholarsportal.info/zportal/zengine?VDXaction=LoginPage
In Racer, you may search Ontario University Library Catalogues. Since our libraries are not registered users, we can only use the "guest access".
Once we find what we want, we may put a request by following the link below.
http://illforms.scholarsportal.info/vdx_illreq_regU.htm
For the RACER Location Code, we can use our AMICUS codes. For Red Deer Regional Library, the code is ARDRH.
Since the registered libraries of AMICUS have not been able to talk to AMICUS for a long time, the information in AMICUS is quite out-of-date and unreliable. Here is an example:
I recently was trying to locate a book with the title "The Bobath concept in adult neurology". The author is Gjelsvik, and the book was published in 2008. In Alberta, only University of Alberta has it. However, shortly after I got the book for the user from U of A, U of A recalled the book because their primary user was requesting it. So I searched for the book again. I tried TAL and AMICUS with no success. Then I tried Racer and found that three libraries own this book (all the three libraries are in AMICUS as well). I ILLed from one of them.
When I use AMICUS, I always confirm by going to the library's current catalogue so that I do not request an item that is not owned by the lending library.
Monday, December 8, 2008
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