Interlending & Document Supply

Volume 30, Number 1, 2002

Contents


The impact of the JISC-funded eLib document delivery-related projects
Neil Jacobs and Anne Morris
Abstract
The UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) was a major research and
development programme funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) of the UK higher education funding councils.  One part of its work
was concerned with document delivery, and several projects had this topic
either as an explicit focus or as a necessary component.  This paper reviews
these projects, assessing the contribution of each one to UK document
delivery services in academic libraries.

Recent developments in interlending and document supply with a focus on the
South African situation
Jenny Raubenheimer and John van Niekerk
Abstract
This paper considers the changes that have taken place, particularly during
the past two years, and the impact that these changes have had on the
interlending and document supply field in terms of the use of the service by
libraries, the quality of the service, bridging the information and digital
divide, players in the field, access to information and overlapping
services.  The focus is on South Africa, but information and experiences
from other countries have been used to illustrate the South African
situation.

The cycles of interlending
Malcolm Smith
Abstract
The paper examines the interlending scene in the UK over the last eighty
years and looks forward to what the future might hold. The decentralised
beginnings of interlending in the 1920s and 30s are contrasted with the move
to centralisation which attended the formation of the National Library for
Science and Technology in the 1960s. The recent demise in the UK of  the
centralised system is described and analysed. The paper outlines the British
Library's role in the emerging distributed electronic environment for
document supply, and concludes with the author's personal reflections on the
current changes to the document supply landscape in the UK.

Brief communication: Providing Access through Co-operation - summary of a
conference
Carol Smale
Abstract
Summary of the latest in the series of international conferences on
interlending and document supply.  Whilst co-operation between researchers
publishers and librarians was the main theme of the conference other topics
discussed included union catalogues, standards, digitisation and national
systems

Interlending and document supply: a review of recent literature - XLI
Sara Gould
Abstract
Reviews recently published literature in the field of resource sharing and
e-journal access.  Considers recent articles on the value of consortial
membership and licensed access to electronic journals.  Also looks at
published articles in the area of aggregators, reference linking,
performance measurement, document delivery in public libraries, and new
trends and developments in a number of countries worldwide.

Miscellany
Compiled in collaboration with the IFLA Office for International Lending

Book review
Jim Vickery
Electronic Collection Management
Edited by Suzan D. McGinnis
Haworth Press, New York 2001

Author, title and subject index to volume 29, 2001

Access to articles also available via the Emerald Web site at
http://www.emeraldinsight.com

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Pauline Connolly
Assistant Editor
Interlending & Document Supply
IFLA Office
c/o British Library
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Wetherby
West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ
UK

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