Interlending and document supply: international perspectives in a New Zealand context

Abstract

This paper has been developed from a workshop held at the 2002 LIANZA (Library and Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) National Conference “Winds of change: libraries in the twenty‐first century”. The authors attended the 7th International Interlending and Document Supply Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1‐5 October 2001, where digital topics dominated and several strong themes emerged: the systems needed to find and request document supply (DS); obstacles to finding the items patrons want; the narrowing or widening of access; legal barriers to inter‐library loans (ILL)/DS access; alternatives to ILL/DS for patrons; then finally, the electronic delivery of documents to libraries and to patrons.

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Bringing the national interlending system into the local document supply process – a Swedish case study

“…Few off-the-shelf products support the automation of regional ILL workflows. Examples include VDX (Farrelly and Reid, 2003;Braun et al, 2006) and consortial borrowing solutions such as INN-Reach (Breeding, 2013c). Interlending systems such as Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) (Jordan, 2009), DOCLINE (Collins, 2007) and RapidILL (Delaney and Richins, 2012) have a wide usage.…”

“…For example, if a regional interlending system is compliant with ISO ILL, it can be expected to integrate seamlessly with local ILL management systems supporting the same standard. Successful cases of integration have been reported for ISO ILL compliant systems such as VDX, ILLiad and Relais (Farrelly and Reid, 2003;OCLC, 2002;Breeding, 2013a;MacKeigan, 2014;Jilovsky and Howells, 2012;Moreno and Xu, 2010;Irwin, 2009;Nyqvist, 2008;Hanington and Reid, 2010;McGillivray et al, 2009). Unfortunately, although it has been around for a long time, the ISO ILL standard has not been consistently adopted (Jackson, 2005;Breeding, 2013a;Balnaves, 2013;MacKeigan, 2014).…”