Interlending Review: Volume 8 Issue 2

REPROGRAPHICS AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION

JA Braid

Over the last ten years the number and proportion of requests being satisfied by photocopying at the British Library Lending Division has increased greatly. There are two main…

LOOKING BACK AND THINKING ALOUD: 20 YEARS IN INTERLENDING

Jim Davey

This is a personal account of some of the developments which have occurred in the field of Interlending in the United Kingdom during the last twenty years with particular…

AUTOMATION FOR INTERLIBRARY LENDING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LASER SYSTEM

Jean Plaister

The London and South‐Eastern Library Region (LASER) facilitates interlibrary lending in London and South East England. It has access to some 40 million volumes and through its…

THE INTERLENDING AND AVAILABILITY OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: REPORT OF A SURVEY CONDUCTED IN 1979

Catherine F. Pinion

A survey was carried out in 1979 into the loan availability and provision of audiovisual materials in the United Kingdom, whether through the Regional Library Bureaux or through…

MINIMAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECKING OF INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUESTS

Malcolm Smith, ES Smith

Bibliographic checking of interlibrary loan requests is a common and time‐consuming activity. The Lending Division does some bibliographic work on over 8,000 requests every week…