ILL Update ALA MW 2000 ILL management systems are maturing apace. Like the other US suppliers in this sector Wings has concentrated on ease of use with many nice touches in the administration of requests like label printing.
Wings also provides customers with a complete database schema to assist in creation of reports.
External communications with other libraries and document suppliers can be via ISO 10161. Communications from the Wings system is flexible with ISO, ERP, Canadian GSM and formatted e-mail options. This is done via a custom built link to each LMS that might be required in a specific implementation of Wings - Z39.50 is not used for this type of interrogation since there is no standard format for the conveying of the vital holdings information yet. Wings will support 3M SIP2 protocol soon for the updating of a local circ system. Like most systems Wings maintains a database of trading partners and patrons - which can be batch loaded or a live link maintained to a patron database.