Setting Up Information Portal to Connect to RSS

Before your users can search your ILL partner libraries, you must set up Information Portal to connect to RSS. You do this by identifying the unique ILL code and the URL for the ILL server.

Before You Begin

You need to find out this information for the ILL server that Information Portal will connect to:

ILL Server Code. This is a unique RSS ILL Symbol code that is found in the Local Library Unit Properties dialog box, in the Symbol field on the General tab. In many cases this is the same as your OCLC code. (For more information, see “Setting Up Local Library Unit Profiles” in the “Basic RSS Setup” section of the “RSS System Administration” chapter of the Resource Sharing System User’s and Administrator’s Guide.)
ILL Server URL. This URL must include the IP address of your ILL server and the home library code that identifies the ILL server. The URL should be in this format:

http://IP address/cgi-bin/RSSpwsmain.pl?HomeLib=server code

For example, if your IP address is “210.10.34.10”and your server code is “emms” for Emmerson County Library, you might have this ILL server URL:

http://210.10.34.10/cgi-bin/RSSpwsmain.pl?HomeLib=emms

To set up Information Portal to connect to RSS

1 Open your Information Portal Administration tool web site.
2 Click the Setup tab.
3 Click the Other sub-tab.
4 Click the ILL/URL option.

The Administration tool displays the InterLibrary Loan page:

5 Do one or more of these options:

To do this

Do this

Add an ILL code and URL

1 Click Add URL.

The Administration tool displays the InterLibrary Loan page:

2 In the ILL Server Code field, enter the code for your ILL server.

(For example, if the name of your ILL library is Emmerson County Public, the code could be “emms”.)

3 In the ILL Server URL field, enter the URL for your ILL server.

(For example, enter http://123.456.789.11/cgi-bin/RSSpwsmain.pl?HomeLib = emms.)

Important: This URL must include the server code that identifies the ILL system you want Information Portal to use.

4 Click OK.
5 If you want Information Portal to use this ILL server as the default location, continue with Setting Up a Default Home Library.

Change the URL of your ILL server

1 Click on the code of the ILL URL that you want to change.

The Administration tool displays the InterLibrary Loan page.

2 Highlight the existing URL in the ILL Server URL field and enter the new URL for your Interlibrary Loan partner’s ILL Server.

(For example, enter http://123.456.789.11/cgi-bin/RSSpwsmain.pl?HomeLib = mas.)

Important: This URL must include the server code that identifies the ILL system you want Information Portal to use. You cannot change the ILL server code here. If you want to change this code, you must delete the old URL and add a new one. (For instructions, see Add an ILL code and URL.)

3 Click OK.
4 Repeat steps 1 through 3 in this table until you have changed all of the URLs that you want to change.
5 If you want Information Portal to use this ILL server as the default location, continue with Setting Up a Default Home Library.

Remove an Interlibrary Loan URL

1 Click the Delete option next to the URL.

Important: If you delete the code and URL that you have specified for the default home library, make sure that you set up another one and specify it as the default home library for Information Portal to use.

6 When you finish making changes in Information Portal, restart the Application Server process (JBoss).

 


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