Morgan Library, Colorado State University

• Print books
• CSU patrons (current students, faculty and staff) request
• CSU library purchases

• Library staff load DDA records into the library catalog.
• A CSU patron selects a DDA book and logs in with their CSU eID.
• If the book is available in Prospector, the patron can choose to borrow the book from Prospector.
• Otherwise, the patron can request the book via an online form.
• The request form sends an email to library Collections and Contracts staff.
• Library staff purchase the book, update the catalog record, and possibly notify the patron that the book is available for checkout.

• Sage (CSU library catalog) - Innovative Millennium, WebPAC Pro, Z39.50, to be replaced by Alma in 2016-7
• Prospector (Colorado/regional library catalog) - Innovative Millennium, WebPAC Pro, Encore
• Discovery (CSU Web-scale discovery tool) - VuFind beta (0.8, 2009), Solr 1.4, Java 1.6, PHP, to be replaced by Primo in 2016-7
• WebAuth - ASP.NET C# application/library for login via CSU eID, to be replaced by Shibboleth in 2016
• SQL server databases - CSU eID database with Person table, Request database/table, accessed via Linq to SQL
• Material Purchase Request Form - ASP.NET C# application, created in 2011

• In the MARC record of each DDA book, the 856u field contains the request URL http://librequest.colostate.edu.
• In Discovery display of Sage records, books with a location code of iws (MARC 998a) are given a library location of “Books Purchased on Request”.
• In search results and record views in Sage (via JavaScript) and in Discovery (via JavaScript and Smarty templates), if 856 u is the request URL, a button links to the request form.
• DDA records do not have a bib number in Prospector, so Prospector request links use an ISBN search.
• The request URL is an alias to the server hosting the application, which the application redirects to the actual URL of the production application: https://wsnet.colostate.edu/cwis6/MaterialRequest/

• The referring URL of the record is passed to the form upon login.
• The bib number is extracted from the referring URL using a regular expression. Sage: record=b1234567 Discovery: Record/.b1234567X
• The bib number is looked up in Discovery's Solr database for details, including title, author, publisher and ISBNs.

• If the book is in Discovery, its first ISBN is used to search classic Prospector.
• If the book is in Prospector, book details, non-CSU copies, and available copies are counted by screen-scraping the holdings rows from the classic Prospector availability page.
• If copies are available, the user can select from links to request from Prospector, view availability in Prospector, or request order for CSU.

• If no copies are available, or the user selects Order, they see their contact information, requested book information, and delivery options (order, order and notify me when it arrives, or rush order).
• Library staff members can also provide comments or details about the request, such as the identity of a patron making the request.
• If the user clicks Order, a confirmation message is composed.
• The message is logged to the Material Request database.
• The message sent via email to the patron. (The Collections and Contracts staff email is a BCC recipient.)
• The message is displayed on a confirmation page, with options to print, return to the catalog record, or log out.

Greg Vogl, Middleware Developer, Academic Computing and Networking Services, (970) 491-4394, Gregory.Vogl@colostate.edu

February 25, 2016