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Annual Report
(September 1997 to August 1998)
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 of International Lending and appropriate core programmes to achieve its objectives and goals.
Membership
172 institutions and associations around the world (January 1998)
Officers:
Chairman
Agneta Lindh
Royal Library, BIBSAM
P.O.B. 5039
S - 102 41 Stockholm
Tel.: +46/8/4634269
Fax: +46/8/4634274
Email: agneta.lindh@bibsam.kb.se
Secretary
Christopher Wright
Library of Congress
Washington DC 20540, USA
Tel. *(1)(202)7075345,
Fax *(1)(202)7075986
E-mail: cwri@loc.gov
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
Followed by (from August 1998)
Carol Smale
Director, Resource-Sharing Services
National Library of Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4
Canada
Tel: 613-992-1752
Fax: 613-996-4424
E mail: carol.smale@nlc-bnc.ca
Meetings
The Chairman and the Secretary met once in between the conferences in Washington DC in March on the occasion of the Chairman's visit to USA.
During the Amsterdam conference the Standing Committee gathered twice. The first meeting was held on Saturday, 15 August 1998 and the second meeting on Friday, 21 August 1998.
Both meetings were well attended, i.e. 14 respectively 17 persons including guests.
The minutes are available on the IFLANET and will be published in the Section's "Newsletter" (March 1999).
Projects
The purpose of INTL 2/93 (Interlending and Document Delivery in Developing Countries) was to help develop interlending capabilities in Ghana and Kenya in co-operation with Danish and Norwegian library sponsors. This project has been successfully concluded and ongoing responsibility for the two efforts has been assumed by their Nordic sponsors. At the time of the IFLA conference in Amsterdam a small balance of IFLA funds remained.
The Standing Committee decided to ask for permission to reallocate this money to provide "seed money" for the 6th International Conference on Interlending and Document Supply, scheduled for Pretoria RSA in 1999. It was the committee's belief that the contribution of NLG 1521 for use by the conference organisers to provide publicity and initial organisation would be in the spirit in which the funds were originally appropriated, i.e. to support interlending in Africa.
A well attended workshop was organised in connection with the IFLA Conference in Amsterdam, August '98.
The second project "Expediting the Implementation of the ISO ILL Protocol" continues, and a concluding workshop with three vendors is planned for a later conference. A status report was presented at the first SC Meeting in Amsterdam. It will be published in the Newsletter.
The report from the project "ILL Response Codes" was postponed until next year.
Publications
2 Newsletters (February and July 1998)
ISSN 1016-281X
Resource Sharing Possibilities and Barriers. Proceedings of the Fifth Interlending and Document Supply International Conference.
Ed. by Dave Johnson and Sara Gould.
1998
ISBN 0 9532349 15
Measuring the Performance of Interlibrary Loan Operations in North American Research & College Libraries
Mary E. Jackson
May 1998
ISBN 0-918006-34-1 122pp. $45
IFLA / DANIDA Newsletter. Vol. 1:1, August 1998.
ISSN 1 398-6147.
Trial Project in Ghana.
Library Journal. Vol. 123:2
(1998) pp. 44-47.
Jackson, Mary E.,
Loan Stars: ILL comes of age.
Conference Programme
During the Amsterdam Conference the Section was involved in three sessions:
- An open forum, "Electronic Publishing and the Transformation of Document Delivery and Interlending". Over 150 persons attended the programme which was chaired by Agneta Lindh.
Papers were given by JAMES H. NEAL ,Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (Electronic publishing: current state and future trends)
LARS BJOERNSHAUGE (Technical Knowledge Centre of Denmark,(From document delivery and interlending to document access and interlibrary collection)
REIMER ECK, Head of User Services at Niedersächsiche Staats- und Universitätbibliothek in Göttingen. (Three years of new end-user oriented RAP-DOC services in Germany. Changes and Challenges
- Workshop - Document Delivery and Interlending in Developing Countries - attended by 30 persons and chaired by Lone Hansen (Danish National Library Authority, Copenhagen, Denmark)
NIELS MARK, State and University Library, Arhus, Denmark
(From idea to IFLA project)
RUTH KONDRUP, State and University Library, Arhus, Denmark
(From start to now - and what is next?)
KNUD ERIK SKOUBY, Centre for Tele-Information, University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
(The technical situation - challenge and solution)
S.N. AMANQUAH, Balme Library, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
(What has been happening in Ghana?)
After the presentations followed a discussion led by Lone Hansen
- Workshop joint with Serial Publications and Interlending and the UAP Core Programme, attended by 48 persons.
Union Catalogues in Today's Libraries
HARTMUT WALRAVENS, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (.Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB), the German National Serials Database)
SUZANNE WARD, UNIverse Project Officer, The British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, UK (The UNIverse project - a European demonstration which adds value to the virtual union catalogue)
CARROL LUNAU, National & International Programs, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (The Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue Project (vCuc): Using Z39.50 to emulate a centralised union catalogue)
JOHN GODBER, Royal National Institute for the Blind ,UK (Consummating the Union - Making a Union Catalogue of Accessible Formats Work)
SARA GOULD, IFLA Office for UAP and International Lending, c/o The British Library, Boston Spa, UK (The IFLA World Directory of National Union Catalogues).
Relationships with Other Bodies
The section continues to co-operate closely with the Office for International Lending and the UAP Core Programme. The programme Director, Graham P. Cornish, was actively involved in several of the section's project.
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.
Author
Agneta Lindh
Chairman of the Section on Document Delivery and Interlending
26 February 1999
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