Joan will try to find the 97 report for each campus and send it to us, but we should let her know if we find our own. She would like updates by April. We should send these electronically, and need only report on mission critical systems that are not yet Y2K compliant. The format will probably be Tex, SGML, or pdf. They are following guidelines set by Virginia Tech.
Planning is needed for housing and archiving such documents in their electronic forms.
The compound document nature of these may pose technical difficulties. Patron initiated request - M. Heath Because of shortage of time, Mary will send a report to the LTAG listserve. The ultimate goal of Request is for all campuses to implement a patron API in lieu of the patron file loads. The acquisition of a patron API will probably be a cost factor for most campuses. It has been additionally planned that the Request service would directly query all of the campus' circulation systems directly to obtain availability status information.