stuart hunt interlend 2003, cambridge, july 2003 the european interlending environment
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Outline
Is there a European interlending environment?
Types of European ILL activity Objective or environmentally
conditioned problems?
“The shared use of individual library collections is a necessary element of international co-operation by libraries. Just as no library can be self-sufficient in meeting all the information needs of its users, so no country can be self-sufficient. The supply of loans and copies between libraries in different countries is a valuable and necessary part of the ILL process.”
International Lending and Document Delivery: Principles and Guidelines for Procedure, 2001 rev.
IFLA
Types of ILL activity
Regional Limited choice National Simple solutions
Continental Multiple choices Inter-continental Complex solutions
Planned vs unplanned decentralisation Regions vs library-to-library
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Centralised/distributed ILL
Centralised model May make doing international ILL easier
BUT slower & more costly
Distributed model Greater control over choice of service
Neither may be used exclusively Centralised collapses into distributed
Decline in central stock = increase in distributed ILL
Commercial/cooperative models
Commercial model Income generation Must break even
Cooperative model Ideological Service ethos Difficult to sustain long-term
Types of European ILL activity
Intra-European interlending Subito, Nordkvik, TEL (?)
Extra-European interlending OCLC ILL
Intra- and extra- European interlending BLDSC
Finding
Bibliographic Reliable citations/bibliographic data Where?/What sources? Union catalogue? OPAC(s)?
Holdings Discovery of location(s) Relation to bibliographic resource
Users
Things you may do to prevent them: No loans for things held locally
System Manual
Restrictions on service User status/type
Restrictions on max cost
Lenders
How to send request? In what format? e-mail, phone, fax, proprietary system, web-
form Who to? And how do you find their
contact details? Will they supply? Will they charge? If so, how much? Fill rate
Requesting from an unknown/untested source may result in low fill rates for borrowing = dissatisfied users
Payment
Free of charge or payment required? Can you comply with payment
method? IFLA vouchers Library credit cards € Banker/broker function by intermediary
service. e.g. OCLC IFM, Subito.
Legal
EU copyright directive Implementation across Europe not
consistent What is legal in one country may not be
legal in another e.g. use of Ariel & other scanning software
E-signatures
Success
Reciprocate? Success as a borrower = more work as a
lender All the questions you asked as a borrower
you need to ask yourself as a lender… Do we supply, do we charge, how, to whom,
etc. BUT being a supplier means income
generation to finance more borrowing … OR establishing favourable reciprocal agreements
Automating the verbs
Discover, Locate, Request, Deliver Z39.50, OpenURL, ISO ILL, NCIP
Will automate what you already do Will ease what the user has to do Machine-to-machine interaction
Standardised messaging/exchange of data
Standards
Require configuration Do standards help with what it is
difficult to do? Find new lenders outside of the known
Getting management information Disparate solutions = dispersion of data
across systems/platforms
Technology
Relationship between technology, services & environment Developing technology to meet service
requirements or modifying service to meet technology? ‘Road-building’
Historically conditioned Availability of funding
Summary
There is no European interlending environment
Micro level - Policy may arise out of practical success or failure Hybrid solutions that do not easily
translate from place to place Macro level – historically &
environmentally conditioned approaches National resources accessed/exploited by
international users