Interlending & Document Supply: Volume 18 Issue 2

Canadian interlending – partnership between services and technology

Carrol D Lunau

Argues that interlending services in Canada increasingly rely onnew technologies. Discusses librarians′ use of new developments such astelefacsimile, CD‐ROM, high bandwidth…

Document provision and supply in less developed countries, with particular reference to the potential of regional systems

Maurice B Line

Argues that the availability of documents in less developedcountries (LDCs) is very poor given seriously deficient library stocksand the cost of access to external resources…

Modelling the economics of interlending

Sharon Bonk, Dennis Pilling

Examines issues raised during a project, carried out by Coopers andLybrand Associates on behalf of the British Library Document SupplyCentre, which looked at interlibrary lending…

Interlibrary loans in Australia 1989: traffic patterns and changes

Colin R Taylor

Describes a survey of interlibrary lending in Australia, undertakenduring May 1989, with coverage of New South Wales, South Australia, andVictoria. Reinforces the idea that…