Interlending & Document Supply, or ILDS, (
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=0264-1615) is accepting papers on all aspects of resource sharing and library collaboration, technological
and legal issues affecting library collaboration, or methods of measuring the
impact and success of collaborative ventures. Suitable topics include, but are
not necessarily limited to:
- Interlibrary loan
- Document delivery
- Circulation, especially direct / consortial borrowing
- Course reserves
- Stacks management / collection management
- Shared storage facilities and print repositories
- Physical and/or electronic delivery of library materials
- Cooperative collection development of print and/or electronic resources
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Demand-drive acquisitions / purchase-on-demand
- Cooperative reference services
- Library consortia, especially new or changing roles for consortia
- Collaborative digitization projects
- Legal issues such as copyright, licensing or patron confidentiality
- Open access
- Assessment of collaborative library services and shared collections
- Management issues related to resource sharing and library collaboration
- Computer systems or software used to manage resource sharing activities
- Computer standards that support and facilitate library cooperation, such as NCIP or ISO ILL
Journal articles are typically about 1000 to 5000 words in length and may take the form of:
- Research paper
- Viewpoint
- Technical paper
- Conceptual paper
- Case study
- Literature review
- General review
Questions about content, format, length, or anything else? Contact the editors, Mary Hollerich at
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Mary A. Hollerich
Asst. Dean for Scholarly Resources and Research Services
Central University Libraries
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750135
Dallas, TX 75275-0135
214-768-4960
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