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Annual Report
(September 1996 to August 1997)
Scope of the Section
The nature and purpose of the Section is to represent libraries and library institutes and associations that are responsible for and interested in making publicly available information, in all formats, more accessible throughout the world. The Section works closely with the IFLA Office for International Lending and appropriate core programmes to achieve its objectives and goals.
Membership
165 institutions and associations around the world (July 1997)
Officers:
Chairman
Heinz Fuchs
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
D - 37073 Göttingen
Tel.: 0049/551/39-5240
Fax: 0049/551/39-5222
Email: Fuchs@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de
Secretary
Agneta Lindh
Royal Library, BIBSAM
P.O.B. 5039
S - 10241 Stockholm
Tel.: 0046/8/4634269
Fax: 0046/8/4634274
Email: Agneta.Lindh@bibsam.Kb.se
Information Coordinator
Una M Gourlay
Document Delivery Fee Based Services
Rice University Library
6100 Main Street
Houston, Tx 7705-1892, USA
Tel.: 001/713/5283553
Fax: 001/713/5234177
Email: Gourlay@rice.edu
Meetings
The Chairman and the Secretary met once in between the conferences in Copenhagen in March on the occasion of a coordination group meeting of the Section’s project.
During the Copenhagen conference the Standing Committee gathered twice. The first meeting was held on Saturday, 30 August 1997 and the second meeting on Thursday, 4 September.
Both meetings were well attended, i.e. 20 respectively 25 persons including guests.
The minutes will be published in the Section’s "Newsletter" (March 1998) and on the IFLANET and so will be the new Medium-Term Programme which was the most important point discussed.
Projects
Members of the Section continue to work in its project on "Document Delivery and Interlending in Developing Countries". The project was presented in the form of a poster session during the Copenhagen conference with representatives from Ghana, our African project partners, present.
Ruth Kondrup (Aarhus University Library, Denmark) gave a state of the art report of the Danish part of the project during the second SC-meeting of the Section and so did Kristine Abelsnes for the Norwegian project. A draft version of Ruth’s report (June 1997) is available on the IFLANET.
On 31 August representatives of both projects including the African partners met again to hear reports about the state of affairs and to discuss future plans. The minutes of this meeting and a report on the training programme plus an evolution are available from Ruth Kondrup (Email: rk@Kumsb.dk).
A description of the second project of the Section "Expediting the Implementation of the ISO ILL Protocol" is available on the IFLANET. Due to the lack of funding the project is a bit delayed. Nevertheless a model presentation was successfully tested during the Copenhagen conference during the session on "The ILL Protocol Standard: Interlibrary Loan in an Open Networked Environment". The project will continue, and a workshop with three vendors is planned for the Bangkok conference. More information is available from Mary E. Jackson (Email: Mary@cni-org).
Publications
2 Newsletters (February and July 1997)
Virginia Boucher: Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook. 2nd. ed.Chicago/London: American Library Association 1997
Graham P. Cornish: The Book Shops here:Barriers to International Interlending and Document Supply. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, Aarhus 1997
Graham P. Cornish: Developing Document Delivery in South East Asia. Now and in the Future.In: Interlending and Document Supply 24/4, 1996, pp. 19-24
Graham P. Cornish: Electronic Copyright Management Systems: Dream, Nightmare or Reality? Paper Presented at 62nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Beijing, August 1996 (Paper 044-DOCDEL-3OE)
Heinz Fuchs: Bericht von der IFLA-Konferenz in Peking. In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 44 (1997)2, pp. 216-221
Heinz Fuchs: German Interlending and Document Delivery in the ‘90s. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, Aarhus 1997
Heinz Fuchs: Neues von der IFLA.In: Bibliotheksdienst 31/4, 1997, pp. 581-582
Judith Greenaway: Interlending and Document Supply in Australia: the Way Forward. In: Interlending and Document Supply 25/3, 1997, pp. 103-107
Mary E. Jackson: The ARL Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Performance Measures Study. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, Aarhus 1997
Mary E. Jackson: The Development, Current Status and Future of Document Delivery and Interlending System. In: Newsletter of the IFLA Section on Document Delivery and Interlending, July 1996, pp. 15--20
Mary E. Jackson: The North American Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Project: Improving ILL/DD Services. In: Interlending and Document Supply 25/1, 1997, pp. 8-10
Sara Gould: The IFLA Voucher Scheme and other Initiatives in International Lending. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, Aarhus 1997
Christine O. Kisiedu: Barriers to the Use of the New Information Technology in Document Delivery in the Third World: Prospects for the IFLA Trial Project in Africa. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, Aarhus 1997
David F. Kohl: Radical Cooperation and Virtual Reality - It’s a fact in Ohio. Will be published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Interlending and document Supply, Aarhus 1997
Christopher Wright: From Barter to Business - a Moral History of Charging for Interlibrary Loans. In: Interlibrary Loan and Document Supply 25/2, 1997, pp. 51-56
Conference Programme
During the Copenhagen Conference the Section held three sessions:
Relationships with Other Bodies
The section continues to cooperate closely with the Office for International Lending and the UAP Core Programme. The programme Director, Graham P. Cornish, was actively involved in the planning of the Section’s MTP 1998-2001.
The Section has also close links with the other Sections of Division V and the Section on Information Technology as well as the UDT and ALP-Core Programmes.
Other events
The Section was a co-sponsor of the 5th International ILDS Conference which took place in Aarhus, Denmark, from 24-29 August 1997, and was considered a great success both professionally and socially. The complete proceedings (see also under Publications) will be published by the IFLA Office for UAP and will be available in a few weeks.
Author
Heinz Fuchs,
Outgoing Chairman of the Section on Document Delivery and Interlending
8 March 1998
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