Interlending Services Research Articles

Activation of Interlibrary Loan Services of The Egyptian Universities Libraries Catalog : An Experimental Study on The Libraries of Minia University

The study aimed to identify what interlending is in university libraries, its objectives and features, and to present a set of regulations and rules governing interlending in university libraries globally and in the Arab world. A set of regulations and rules governing interlending in university libraries globally and internationally, and highlighting On the interlending service in the unified catalogue of Egyptian universities by identifying the practical application The researcher also presented a set of experiences that dealt with the service globally and internationally. The researcher presented a set of experiments that dealt with the service globally and in the Arab world and identified the most important results and recommendations from them, in addition to identifying the opinions of The researcher presented a set of experiences that dealt with the service globally and internationally, in addition to identifying the most important results and recommendations from them, in addition to identifying the opinions of university library managers about the activation of the service. overcome them. The researcher adopted the empirical approach to achieve the objectives of the study.

Interlending Services: Trends, Languages, and use for Collection Development at North-West University

ABSTRACTThis paper uses the bibliometrics methods to analyse the interlending service trends, language and collection development at the North-West University. The results show that despite some challenges, ILS services at the NWU decreased. More than 98.5% of all documents requested are in English language followed by Setswana and Afrikaans. Out of the 535 books requested by the Mafikeng Campus, 138 were added to the collection of the library. These results point to a need for academic libraries in Africa to adopt strategies for the development of African languages. The results support the continued use of ILS data for collection development purposes.

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 94

Purpose This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an impact on the service. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on the scanning of about 150 journals, reports, websites and blogs. Findings OA continues to grow and, hence, the impact of document supply. Improvements in the Interlending and Document Supply service are satisfying. Originality/value This paper is the only regular review of LIS literature in this subject area.

Interlending and resource sharing in UK public libraries: A mixed methods study

This paper presents the results of a mixed methods study of interlending and resource sharing in UK public libraries, based on the results of a survey distributed to both senior library managers and interlending staff, and in-depth follow-up interviews with 20 respondents. We present an analysis of perspectives towards rates of interlending, the rationales and strategies for providing the service, the perceived value for money offered by various interlending schemes, the impact of the current digital environment, and views on the future of interlending in the UK. Our findings suggest that while interlending services are undoubtedly threatened by the drastic cuts to public library funding, and that demand for the service is more generally in decline, resource sharing is viewed by some as a potential means of mitigating the effects of increasingly limited acquisitions budgets, and ensuring the public library system continues to provide access to a wide range of resources for its users.

Enhancing resource sharing with a state-of-the-art transportation system in a large open distance learning (ODL) institution in South Africa

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate the enhancement of resource sharing with a state-of-the-art transportation system in a large open distance learning (ODL) institution in South Africa. The University of South Africa (UNISA) is an ODL institution, and it has the largest academic library of its kind in Africa. The University is acknowledged as one of the mega-universities of the world with a student body approaching 400 000. In addition to providing an inter-lending service to this large student body and to 3,000 staff, the UNISA Library is a net-lender within South Africa’s inter-lending and resource sharing network. The Library’s inter-lending service forms part of the request services available to all its clients and to the wider community of participating libraries. Daily, an average of 2000 requests is received for processing, retrieval and delivery. This paper provides a brief overview of how the Library’s request service is managed and will discuss the technologies used to speed up the request process. It focuses on an automated radio frequency identification (RFID) transportation system to be implemented as part of the 21st century, newly redesigned UNISA Library. To ensure the speedy availability of material on the shelves after return, this system automatically transports materials via a Paternoster book lift to the respective levels within the Library. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology used in this investigation encompassed a literature study and a study visit to a library where this automated delivery system had been implemented and information was gained from relevant service suppliers. Findings – The UNISA Library found that it is feasible to use the system in terms of the large number of books to be transported from drop-off points to the respective levels. In accordance with the investigation of the number of trolleys to be pushed daily by staff from one point to another, the installation of an automated system will allow more time for shelf maintenance staff to attend to the processing of requests for material and other important but less urgent duties. This will impact positively on the speed of delivery of requests submitted by ODL clients who cannot visit the libraries together with those submitted by local and international inter-library loan partners who depend on the UNISA Library as a net-lender for material not available in their own collections. This will impact positively on availability of material on the shelves and the speed of delivery of requests for information resources submitted by ODL clients who cannot visit the ODL libraries and inter-library loan partners, nationally and internationally, who depend on the UNISA Library as a net-lender for material not available in their own collections. Originality/value – Because rapid delivery of requested information resources has become very important to ensure just in time information, it is important to implement an internal delivery system to support the inter-lending process. This study is useful for libraries that need to deliver many physical items to a large client body.

On a clear day you can inter-lend forever: the UK inter-lending scene

This article details the challenges faced by today's UK-based inter-lending services in terms of fiscal pressures, technological change and changing patron expectations. It examines how recent refurbishment at the British Library has led to an increase in community inter-lending, against a background of a general reduction of the reliance on inter-library loan services. It also considers the perception of the value of inter-lending services by senior management, alongside the impact that online availability of materials has had. It then considers the issues around rights management and licence restrictions for inter-lending imposed by many publishers and suppliers. Finally, it considers the steps for change that inter-lending services need to embrace to meet these challenges.

No fate but what we make? Current trends and challenges in the UK document supply community

PurposeThis paper seeks to provide a practitioner‐based review of the broad issues, challenges and opportunities that currently exist within the UK document supply sector.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is based on a survey and personal discussions with individuals across the sector, backed up by a literature review and background research.FindingsCurrently, there are a number of areas of particular concern facing UK interlenders. Most interlenders in the UK are experiencing a reduction in patron requests, and an upswing in direct requests from other libraries. Other challenges include the reduction in funding and subsequent impacts on services, the lending of electronic documents restricted by rights management software and licences, as well as the opportunities and potential threats offered by open access resources. Finally there seems to be a need to demonstrate effectively to senior management the value of interlending services to patrons.Originality/valueThe paper provides an overview of developments in interlending within the UK sector by a current practitioner and service manager.

GIVES: interlending and discovery for non‐English resources

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the rationale and the development of the Global Interlending & Verification Enquiry Service (GIVES), which is evolving at a major academic research library in the USA.Design/methodology/approach – Access problems and bibliographic challenges are described, as is the devising of various solutions in the development of the service. Based on an extremely rich collection of foreign language materials, and modeled after the highly successful Slavic Reference Service, this project works to provide materials in many languages to users through detailed and comprehensive searches conducted on an individual basis, drawing on a wide variety of bibliographic resources and catalogs in various formats.Findings – The challenges facing GIVES staff in assisting users with their ILL/DD requests are of three kinds: bibliographic, linguistic, and organizational. Thanks to conventions of bibliography and cataloging that cross all linguistic boundaries, and to the judicious use...

EBook Loans: an e‐twist on a classic interlending service

PurposeIn April 2007, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), in collaboration with Ingram MyiLibrary, launched the eBook Loan Service. The paper describes the management of challenges associated with the project as well as the background and context of the aims to eBook Loan Service model. Conclusions and future activities by the partners with regard to e‐book lending are discussed.Design/methodology/approachThe paper addresses two main topics: how the eBook Loan Service model was developed, the challenges and risks, the outcomes and benefits; and to evaluate whether a project stretching across boundaries of geography and time as well as between public and commercial partners can be managed successfully. Through a literature review, the context of the e‐book lending model for libraries is addressed, as well as the challenges of virtual project management.FindingsThe challenges and risks associated with implementing the new service were resolved and the project was a success.Originality/valueThe new service delivered by this project underlines the richness of new ideas emerging in the library community to improve access to scholarly literature in the digital age. With this model of affordable short‐term access to scholarly e‐books, libraries will be in a better position to serve the just‐in‐time needs of users in the electronic environment and end‐users will have better access.

Libraries for the Blind as Accessible Content Publishers: Copyright and Related Issues

Libraries for the blind developed as charities, circulating and producing, for the most part, Braille. Their seeking of copyright licenses to permit them to produce such books did not pose any particular threat to copyright holders and publishers. But as they started taking their places as libraries that rendered library services, and as technological developments enabled them to make and circulate accessible books in various forms to readers with different print disabilities, it became difficult for them to have to seek and obtain such licenses for a variety of reasons. Many governments therefore enacted statutory exceptions to their copyright laws to assist them. Some of those exceptions are considered here, with reference to their efficacy. Particular attention is paid to difficulties arising out of those exceptions as they impact interlending services. It is argued that those laws alone do not appear to be at the heart of the problems libraries for the blind experience with regard to interlending. Rather, the delivery of digital materials via the Internet, being entirely different from the delivery of books through interlending arrangements, is creating obstacles that require agreements with publishers, if they are to be addressed.

Opening interlending services to end users: the Catalogue Collectif de France

An important role is played by academic libraries in French interlibrary loan and the huge volume of heritage collections and rare holdings in public libraries have also to be considered. This paper presents the interlibrary loan strategy that the Bibliothèque Nationale de France has engaged in for ten years to improve end users’ access to collections. It also presents the Catalogue Collectif de France features and demonstrates how this catalogue makes available to Internet users around 14 million records of documents held by different kinds of libraries in France. In conclusion, the paper presents some of the expected consequences for end users and French libraries when free interlending services are opened via the Internet.

New interlending service from Sabinet Online

New interlending service from Sabinet Online

Marketing a National Library: Practical Experiences from the State Library of South Africa

The State Library of South Africa has a Marketing section, with the aims of developing a market orientation among the staff, creating an environment conducive to the selling of the library's products and services, enhancing its visibility, and identifying and meeting market needs. The library supplies products, in the form of bibliographic and other databases, and interlending, reference and book exchange services. Its markets are mostly but not exclusively other libraries. Public libraries were identified as the main target, and a roadshow was designed to establish with them the State Library's role as an information provider, identify market opportunities and build up personal contacts. Libraries in five of the country's nine provinces were targeted through a series of 11 regional meetings. In addition, 15 libraries were visited. Efforts were made to assess the effectiveness of the roadshow, which was presented as informally and entertainingly as possible. The exercise was costly and time-consuming, but the advantages to the library and the staff are considerable. The real impact will not be known for some time.

OCLC Interlending and Document Supply Services

OCLC Services available since 1971 are now providing access to 27 million items in 45 countries. Outlines current abilities and future developments including: PRISM AND PRISM ILL, a new telecommunications network and its ContentsFirst and ArticleFirst databases. Discusses the introduction of its document delivery service, OCLC Dispatch and Gateway access to reference services from local and campus information networks planned for 1993. OCLC has undertaken multidimensional planning to provide it with a many faceted framework to develop its resource sharing potential now and in the future.

Interlibrary lending in Yugoslavia: with special reference to the Central Medical Library in Ljubljana

Describes the use made of the interlending services in a country “with a high level of political conflict and national diversity”. Examines areas of science and politics in the former Yugoslavia, journal collections, automation and costs. Concludes that standardisation at the highest level is required and that library co‐operation in the former Yugoslavia can “rise above the problems caused by the hostilities in the political environment”.

Project ION (OSI Pilot/Demonstration Project between Library Networks in Europe for Interlending Services).

The European Commission has accepted a proposal for an Open Systems Inter‐Connection (OSI) pilot/demonstration project between library networks in Europe for interlending services. The project arose from the Commission's call for ‘declaration of interest’ in pilot or demonstration projects designed to promote competitiveness and develop the information service market in Europe. It predates the ‘Plan of Action for Libraries in the European Community’, but subscribes to the objectives and action lines included in it.

Canadian interlending – partnership between services and technology

Argues that interlending services in Canada increasingly rely on new technologies. Discusses librarians′ use of new developments such as telefacsimile, CD‐ROM, high bandwidth networks, and OSI based systems. Shows that technical developments have served as a catalyst for extensive service and technical planning of national and regional interlending services.

Regional Interlending Systems

Paper based on a Workshop on Interlending in the Caribbean held in Martinique on 14 May 1988. Interlending in the Caribbean is not organized on a regional basis. The region has considerable need of document supply and interlending services but the necessary structures are not all present to create a properly organized system, nor is there any indication of the likely demand, the needs of libraries or the resources available. Some work needs to be done to establish some facts and suggestions are made for a way forward to improve matters. It is suggested that what is said about the Caribbean region may well be of relevance to other regions contemplating an interlending network.

FROM DECENTRALIZATION TO CENTRALIZATION: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN FRANCE

The traditional decentralization of interlending services based on the good will of individuals and organizations has created a number of problems in France leading to a fundamental disorganization and inability to provide even a tentative assurance of success. Interlibrary co‐operation depends upon union catalogues and upon a number of specialized centres: the Centre de Documentation Scientifique et Technique (CDST), the Centres d'Acquisition et de Diffusion de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (CADIST) and the Centre Nationale de Prêt (CNP), for example. The unsatisfactory nature of the present system for the user has finally been recognized, and projects are being launched to improve the situation. One of these, the Agence Nationale de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (ANIST), is seen as addressing the major problems by considering the document requirements of different user types. The national body shows the potential to become the required co‐ordinating centre for data‐base support and document supply.

Interlending services in Turkish university libraries

Interlending services in Turkish university libraries