Minutes of the Second Standing Committee Meeting Section on Document Delivery and Interlending

Bangkok, Friday, 27 August 1999

Standing committee members present:

Elena Eronina (Russia), Poul Erlandsen (Denmark),Una Gourlay (USA), Lone Hansen (Denmark), Beth Hanson (USA), Mary Jackson (USA), David Kohl (USA), Agneta Lindh (Sweden), Celine Menil (France), James Neal (USA), Uwe Schwersky (Germany), Penelope Street (UK), Pentti Vattulainen (Finland), Christopher Wright (USA), Graham Cornish and Sara Gould (IFLA/UAP Office), Annsofie Oscarsson (convener of the Discussion Group on Reference Work).

Guests:

Mary Hollerich (USA), H. K. Kaul (India), U. Khin Maung Tin (Myanmar/Burma), Sunee Nuichan (Thailand)

Medium Term Program and Action Plan for 2000-2001

The committee spent the first half of its scheduled time reviewing proposals for a new Scope statement in the Medium Term Program document and revisions to the Section's Action Plan for the next two years. The new plan is published as an appendix to these Minutes.

6th International Conference on Interlending & Document Supply

Peter Lor, Director of the State Library of South Africa, reported the conference seemed to be on sound financial footing with 135 paid registrations, a majority from outside South Africa. An added dimension, he noted, is the expectation that the conference will explore the connection between successful internal document supply systems and international lending.

Jerusalem/2000: Offsite Workshop in Alexandria, Egypt

The committee empowered Lone Hansen to work with the University Libraries Section on the inclusion of document delivery issues in a workshop on general institutional cooperation that is being proposed for a venue outside Israel, perhaps Alexandria, Egypt. The committee agreed to participate so long as the workshop is fully recognized and supported by IFLA as part of the Jerusalem/2000 General Conference.

Jerusalem/2000: Section Workshop on Licensing

The committee asked David Kohl to chair a half-day workshop on copyright and licensing as they affect libraries' ability to share information. Jim Neal was proposed to give copyright background paper. Kjell Nilsson (Royal Library, Stockholm) was proposed to give the licensing perspective.

Jerusalem/2000: Section Program on Document Delivery in the Middle East

The committee asked Chris Wright to chair a program similar to the Bangkok "Outsider's Guide to Document Delivery in South East Asia." Graham Cornish proposed speakers from Turkey and Cyprus.

Boston/2001: Preliminary Planning for Workshop and Program

Workshop and demonstration on use of ISO ILL Protocols to support interchange of document delivery requests across local systems. (Mary Jackson)
Program on involving the end user in document delivery. (Poul Erlandsen)

Review of Bangkok Conference

Workshop:: Graham Cornish reported the workshop was attended by 50 people and four country reports were presented, citing improvements since the previous conference. The UAP Office will publish the papers of these speakers together with those of the three speakers from the section's program on document delivery in South East Asia.
Program:: Lone Hansen reported that over 100 persons attended the program which featured speakers from Thailand, Hong Kong, and Malaysia.

Other Business

There being no other business the chair congratulated the members on a successful conference and adjourned the meeting until next year in Jerusalem.

Latest Revision: October 29, 1999