Presentation on : ‘’ A Brief about Interlibrary Loan’’ Presented To:Dr. Anilkumar, H. My Teachers & My Friends. VSL IIMA

Guided By: Mr. Viral Navik

Ms. Asha Desai

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Vikram Sarabhai Library

Contents

• Introduction• Need• Process• ILL Statistics• What we are doing?• Conclusion• References

Introduction“The inter library loan means sharing of the resources of one library by the other libraries on demand, when they are needed by its user i.e. sharing one’s scholarly materials with others”.It also called as DDS, Inter lending, resource sharing, etc.

Reference : Kent, A. L. and P. P. and P. P. (1974). Resource sharing in libraries, why how, when next action steps. Marcel Dekker.

Cont…

The sharing of library resources started with the concept of inter library loan, under which a library can get a document from another library on loan for a certain period.

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Need?

All libraries can’t procure all the information.Due to;• Tremendous increase of resources.• Lack of space in libraries.• Lack of BudgetAnd to fulfill the need of our users.

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Who are the User’s?

• Research Students, Faculty, Staff, etc.

• External i.e. Other libraries.

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ProcessInterlibrary loan has two operations: borrowing and lending.

• Borrowing: Books, Articles, (from Group Libraries )

• Lending: Books, Articles, other project related information (For Internal Members ).

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Cont.…

• By emailing.• By manually.• Through telephones • By chat

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We can Get…

• Books• Articles• Cd / DVD’s#• Theses#• Project Reports# (# If possible)

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We can’t get…

• Rare Collections• Software• Reference collections, etc.

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Current Development

• ‘Worldshare’ by OCLC’

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The helping tools

• INFLIBNET INDcat / GUJcat• NUCCSI• DELNET• NISCAIRThe union catalogs are helping in search of books/Journals/Articles located or available in particular libraries…

What we are doing?

In our library the Interlibrary section serves our users in different approach.

• Analyzing request• Quick Response• Orientations

ILL Statistics

• We are maintaining ILL statistics with the help of an Excel sheet.

Conclusion

Thus, this is about my section (Interlibrary loan section). Anyway, the theme of this section is to serve the users in different approaches as much as possible.

References

• Kent, A. L. and P. P. and P. P. (1974). Resource sharing in libraries, why how, when next action steps. Marcel Dekker.

• Library Resource Sharing and Networking - Free Online UGC NET / SET / SLET Guide in Library and Information Science. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2014, from http://www.netugc.com/library-resource-sharing-and-networking

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