Resources Anytime, Anywhere

Resources Anytime, Anywhere
Author: Ryan Litsey
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-05-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0081019904

University campuses and their academic libraries are increasingly interconnected. A major sign of this is the transformation of interlibrary loan into resource sharing. The emergence of resource sharing has brought with it new challenges for the university library. These challenges can be overcome, and the university library can emerge a stronger institution, more connected with the patrons and community it serves. To accomplish this transformation, libraries need to learn from the past in order to take a leading role in developing future technology to meet the needs of their patrons. Resources Anytime, Anywhere explores the transformation of interlibrary loan into resource sharing by looking at the ideas that have motivated the library-developed technologies that have changed the way resource sharing is conducted. Resources Anytime, Anywhere illustrates how academic libraries can take an active role in developing technology to meet the needs of their patrons. Through designing our own products and sharing them with other libraries, we can join the lessons of the past with the technology of today to create a more interconnected library that can meet the future needs of library patrons. Describes the theoretical underpinnings of interlibrary loan Explores how interlibrary loan has evolved to resource sharing Presents new ways of organizing and developing resource sharing staff Examines the technological developments within resources sharing Reconsiders the idea of collaboration and cooperation among libraries Considers new innovative technologies that can transform how resource sharing is conducted Provides recommendation and future directions of how libraries can apply these methods at their institution

The Future of Resource Sharing

The Future of Resource Sharing
Author: Shirley K. Baker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000757544

This book, first published in 1995, addresses the key issue facing libraries on how to survive in an age of interdependence. Increasingly, individual libraries must act as if each is part of a ‘world library’ Instead of being self-sufficient, each library, from the small public library to the large research library, must find ways to put materials from this ‘world library’ into the hands of its patrons and must stand ready to supply materials from its own collection to others, both quickly and cost-effectively through interlibrary loan. It explores the critical questions for making resource-sharing work, with particular emphasis on interlibrary loan. Cooperative collection development, economic decision models, consortial arrangements, copyright dilemmas, and the possibilities of technology are explored and a national project to revamp interlibrary loan and document delivery is described and future directions posited. Authors present historical perspective, explore the future, and report from multiple perspectives.

Resource Sharing in Libraries

Resource Sharing in Libraries
Author: Marshall Breeding
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838958826

Marshall Breeding’s new Library Technology Report explores technologies and strategies for sharing resources, helping you streamline workflows and improve resource-sharing services by covering key strategies like interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing, document delivery, and shared collections.

Global Resource Sharing

Global Resource Sharing
Author: Linda Frederiksen
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2011-11-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1780632886

Written from a global perspective, this book reviews sharing of library resources on a global scale. With expanded discovery tools and massive digitization projects, the rich and extensive holdings of the world’s libraries are more visible now than at any time in the past. Advanced communication and transmission technologies, along with improved international standards, present a means for the sharing of library resources around the globe. Despite these significant improvements, a number of challenges remain. Global Resource Sharing provides librarians and library managers with a comprehensive background in and summary of the issues involved in global resource sharing. Analyses current and future environments for international resource sharing, including past research and discussions Provides an international perspective on a global library issue Includes examples of successful and innovative global resource sharing initiatives

Resource Sharing Today

Resource Sharing Today
Author: Corinne Nyquist
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810888041

Budget constraints challenge collection development in unprecedented ways. Collection development has increasingly become a cooperative effort among libraries in geographic proximity. When their own library doesn’t have certain books or journals, users turn to interlibrary loan to obtain the resources they need. However, many library science degree programs don't cover interlibrary loan. Resource Sharing Today is a practical guide to resource sharing starting with the library across town and ending with libraries on the other side of the globe. Chapters cover everything from the ALA’s interlibrary loan form to successful innovations such as Virginia Tech’s ILLiad to New York’s IDS (Information Delivery Service). Appendices include regional, state, national, and international ILL codes, ALA and IFLA forms, open access agreements, and purchase on demand plans.

Library Information and Resource Sharing

Library Information and Resource Sharing
Author: Beth Posner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Through the perspectives of interlibrary loan (ILL) specialists, this book examines what ILL departments are doing, the value of ILL librarians in the evolving library environment, and how library collections and services are being affected by new ILL policies. In today's libraries, ILL specialists are facilitating service that goes far beyond traditional borrowing and lending. Recent innovations in interlibrary loan and library resource-sharing practices have advanced the information-sharing mission of libraries—a sea change that affects and benefits all library operations and staff. This book explores the far-reaching significance of these innovations in ILL for other areas of library activity, from acquisitions and collection development to reference and instruction to circulation and e-resource management and beyond. Readers will understand that as valuable as traditional ILL remains, ILL librarians are also well-placed to do much more. For example, ILL staff can inform acquisitions and collection development decisions with request data; demonstrate the need to maintain and preserve the long tail of print; advocate for the fair use of copyrighted print material and license terms that safeguard library information sharing in the digital environment; nurture consortial relationships and international cooperation between libraries; and promote the discovery of information, all of which can help librarians meet the information needs of their communities.

Handbook for Document Delivery, Interlending and Resource Sharing

Handbook for Document Delivery, Interlending and Resource Sharing
Author: Mary Hollerich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110253276

The purpose of this volume is to provide interlibrary loan practitioners around the world with enough basic information about best practices, principles, and issues related to interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing and lending, document delivery, and resource sharing in the twenty-first century. This work will augment existing country-specific literature and serve as a source or building-block for those countries or regions that may not already have an adequate body of literature in this field.

Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook

Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook
Author: Cherié L. Weible
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838992951

Consortia and other library partnerships are now sharing ever larger fractions of their collections, and this book gives library staff the tools necessary for a smoothly functioning ILL system.