Press Release | Primary Research Group
Primary Research Group has published: Profiles of Academic Library Inter-Library Loan Efforts, ISBN 978-157440490-6

The study is a series of journalistic profiles of the interlibrary loan efforts of six major academic libraries or consortia:  the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Duke University, Northwestern, the University of Delaware, Claremont Colleges Library, a consortium of 7 colleges in Claremont, California,  including Harvey Mudd College and Pomona College, and the Virtual Library of Virginia, a consortium of 70 academic libraries in Virginia, including George Mason University, the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and many others.

Based on interviews with interlibrary loan departments heads and other top officials, the report examines leading edge efforts, including but not restricted to:

  • How libraries are addressing the innate interoperability between integrated library systems and ILL/document delivery platforms with an emphasis on new tools that allow disparate systems to communicate with one another
  • Efforts to maximize the inter-library loan of eBooks and manage copyright and other issues related to eBook lending
  • Measures to replace older ILL management systems
  • The management of Purchase on Demand systems and their relationship with ILL
  • Outreach to ILL end users and how feedback from them informs acquisitions decisions
  • Emerging programs to increase the sharing of and use of special collections through strategic use of special ILL measures for special collections
  • Management of ILL consortia
  • Management of copyright and publisher licensing restrictions
  • And much more

The report was written by Rachel Gordon, Head of Access and Collection Services and Senior Lecturing Fellow at the Duke University Law Library. A PDF version of the 50-page special report is currently available for $95.00 and a print version is in production and will be available for shipment on February 4, 2018 and can be ordered now; hosted or PDF site licenses are also available for access by a licensee library’s end users.  For a table of contents, excerpt and ordering information, view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com or visit the product page for this report directly at: https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=471

Or call us at 212-736-2316; orders can also be faxed to 212-412-9097. 

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