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It seems that most people who are commenting on this thread are those who
use Ariel for everything, as opposed to those who are not explaining why
they don't.

Like others who have commented, our preference is for documents to be
sent via Ariel. Most places that we deal with also seem to prefer Ariel.
As has been said already, it saves postage charges, fax charges, and even
general costs for stationary such as paper and envelopes. I also don't see
understaffing as being the problem ... does it take more staff to
photocopy and mail than it does to Ariel?

Maybe we're just blessed by being in a university setting and being able
to hire students on work grants. But the only change if we didn't have
students would be a slower turn-around time (unless we could convince
administration to hire more permanent staff in this period of downsizing).
It would not lessen our use of Ariel.

We have one student assistant who is dedicated to Ariel. He spends his
entire time pulling journals from the shelves, scanning them, and
reshelving the journals. He also checks incoming Ariel documents to ensure
they are complete and legible, before passing them on to regular staff.
Ariel alone keeps him quite busy. Regular staff only work with Ariel if
the student is not in on a particular day. Although our scanner has a
document feeder, we removed it. We scan all journals directly. It's as
fast as the photocopier now that we've upgraded our scanner (Fujitsu
M3097G : 30+ ppm - the student loves it!). We have another student
assistant who does nothing but photocopy. All incoming requests are sorted
into Ariel and non-Ariel, and handed off to the students.


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