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    The Potential of Electronic Document Delivery Services for Academic Libraries in Etidopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2000-05) Demilew, Petros; Tadesse, Taye (PhD)
    One of the biggest stumbling blocks of e effective resource sharing has been unavailability of delivery mechanisms in academic institutions in Ethiopia. The actual provision of information has been slow and inefficient. The academic calendar a lows little or no lag time in the provision or needed documents. While technology has certainly made cooperation and document delivery more realistic, it is important to be aware of the role of IT and communication technology in the effectiveness of access and delivery of documents. Rap id and easy communication has lowered the geographic barriers that have of ten prevented or made impossible past attempts to develop resource-sharing programs. In view or this. the study attempts to explore the potential of electronic document delivery services or academic libraries in Ethiopia to propose enhanced information resource sharing in this in visitation . The study particularly focused on the need to share scholarly valued local and foreign journals and indigenous publications in order to optimally use these materials which already exist within academic institutions. Findings from the literature review on technologies, standards and application protocols available for document delivery system have been discussed. Various electronic document delivery projects were also discussed in order to propose the appropriate System for Ethiopia an situations.The current status of academic libraries, their problems particularly in relation to document deliver services along wit h user requirements were reported. Based on the existing information and network infrastructure and user requirements identified though the survey work attempt was made to to discuss the desired features and system (hardware and so software) requirements that can address the contemplated need In attempt to use the potential use of Electronic Document Delivery Service (EDDS), Specific applications were used to develop the prototype. The prototype development was based on Windows NT server software 4.0 platform, TCP/IP, Internet Information server ( Il S), Cold Fusion web based application development software, access ODBC driver and Microsoli Access. The proto type database for union lists of serials particularly journals were designed by Microsoli Access which is supported by cold Fusion. Script codes had to be developed using coldf usion (version 4.0) application software. This prototype database and as well as the developed user interface had been discussed . As part of the final components of document delivery system Viewer paper port scanning software was used to scan a document. Using Multi purpose Internet Mai l Extensions (MIME) compliant e-mail software the scanned document was sent as an e-mail attachment and sent to one of ' the library in Addis Ababa. The steps and its test result was documented. Finally conclusion and recommendation were also made to synthesize the whole exercise attempted in this study and to suggest what needs to be done for deployment in academic libraries in Ethiopia as well as further research area along similar lines.