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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