Administration And Leadership Of Inter Library Loan Departments, Consortia, Cooperatives, Networks
Introduction
The Resource Sharing & Information Networks has combined with the peer-reviewed, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (JILDDER), which is presently taking submissions for publication in the summer and fall of 2010. Articles on resource sharing, unmediated borrowing, electronic reserves, collaborative collection building, shared virtual library services, digitization initiatives, and other multi-library collaboration endeavors, including the following topics, are of particular interest to JILDDER.
sharing collections and working together on purchases
Consortial delivery mechanisms
facilities for shared storage
management and coordination of interlibrary lending offices, networks, cooperatives, and consortia
Consortia that offer training, consultancy, and continuing education
the use of interlibrary loan statistics for the purchase, culling, and collection management of books and periodicals
the choice and use of state-of-the-art interlibrary loan and electronic reserve systems, including Ariel, Illiad, BlackBoard, Relais, and other proprietary and open-source software
Questions related to copyright and permissions for interlibrary loans and electronic reserves
aspects of quality control, efficiency analyses, best practices, library 2.0, the effects of Open WorldCat and Google Scholar, buy rather than borrow, and practical advice on how to deal with the unique issues of international interlibrary loan, foreign exchange, payment issues, IFLA, and shipping
the interlibrary loan of specialist library materials such books, CDs, DVDs, video, subscription products from the internet, and legal materials
specific issues with governance, law, music, and other special types of libraries
the development of interlibrary borrowing as a specialization and new prospects in the field
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