I attended the ILLiad International Conference in Virginia Beach a few weeks ago. The conference is an annual event that is becoming increasingly international. Interlibrary Loan practitioners came from all over the U.S. as well as the U.K., Israel, Thailand, and other countries.  There was even a session on “Resource Sharing in the Japanese Libraries.”  ILL at Davidson is obtaining and supplying material to international libraries at an increasing rate as these libraries find that we have … [Read more...]

In the Access and Acquisitions department, we distinguish between “document delivery” (digitizing and transmitting to users items from the library’s print collection) and “interlibrary loan” (getting items from other libraries, in whatever format).  This can get a little confusing, because the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) staff performs both services.  With the advent (this past year) of document delivery, ILL has, of course, widened the scope of the information delivery that it provides. As is now … [Read more...]