Interlending and Document Supply
Latest Issue: Volume 30 Number 2
Contents
The future of interlibrary loan and document supply: views and comments
Maurice B Line
Elda-Monica Guerrero
Mary E Jackson
Niels Mark
Henri Sène
Leo Waaijers
Abstract
Several members of the this journal's Editorial Advisory Board give brief
views on how they see the future of interlending and document supply. The
article concludes with an overview of these contributions, together with
additional comments, by an Editorial Board member.
Digitising instead of mailing or shipping. A new approach to interlibrary
loan through customer related digitisation of monographs
Günter Mühlberger
Abstract
While document delivery of journal articles has seen some remarkable
progress in the last years, interlibrary loan (ILL) of monographs is still
being carried out in the way it started from its very beginnings in the 19th
century; to satisfy the need of a single user the book is delivered from
site to site by a postal service. In contrast to this traditional method the
BOOKS2U! project will investigate the possibility of a new approach where
the requested monograph is digitised and the digital surrogates are made
available on a digital library Website. The project is funded by the
European Union under the Information Society Technologies Programme and
carried out by the libraries of the Universities of Graz
(http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/ub/) and Innsbruck (http://ub.uibk.ac.at/) and
the Department of Computer Science for the Blind (i3s3)
(http://www.aib.uni-linz.ac.at/) of the University of Linz which together
are forming the ALO (Austrian Literature Online) working group. The results
of the project will be summarised in a feasibility study.
Top performing interlending operations: results of the Australian
benchmarking study
Tom Ruthven and Susan Magnay
Abstract
During the year 2000 over 100 Australian libraries across all sectors
participated in a comprehensive study of interlending and document delivery.
The study used a survey to measure costs, turnaround time, fill rate and
user satisfaction. The survey was based on the Association of Research
Libraries study, Measuring the Performance of Interlibrary Loan Operations,
conducted by Mary Jackson with North American research libraries. The
article reports on the following findings and implications for Australian
libraries:
* What distinguishes high performing document delivery operations in
2000?
* What are the costs?
* Are there differences between sectors?
* How the study will be applied to improve Australia's national
resource sharing system.
Back to the future - when resource sharing seemed to work. The rise and
fall of a successful consortial resource sharing network
Terry L Weech
In the early 1980s the State of Illinois formed a state-wide resource
sharing consortium under a state network called ILLINET, founded on an
OCLC-based bibliographic database and a consortium of 18 regional library
systems serving academic, school and special, as well as public libraries.
This consortium successfully supported resource sharing among all types of
library for nearly fifteen years. But in the mid-1990s, financial and
technical developments led to the dissolving of the consortium and the
realignment of some of its major academic library members with other
academic libraries outside the original group. Some special libraries that
had entered the consortium with some concerns also withdrew their support
for interlibrary loan and document delivery. The public and school
libraries were left without the major holdings of these libraries, and the
resource-sharing policies changed as new agreements developed with other
consortia. Thus what was once considered a model for the future of
multi-type library consortia became a dysfunctional and non-operative
organisation. This paper examines the financial, political, and technical
factors that led to these changes and assesses the short- and long-term
impacts on resource sharing for users of the original consortium. Other
similar resource sharing consortia models are examined and compared with the
Illinois experience. Possible lessons and implications for other consortia
are discussed and possible outcomes listed.
Bibliography of interlending and document supply: 46
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