VINE: Volume 24 Issue 2

Inter‐library lending and document delivery: an overview

Inter‐library lending has existed as a tradition as long as libraries have existed in their present form. It has of course always been necessary to supplement local holdings with…

Recent developments at The British Library Document Supply Centre

Stephen Vickers

Demand for The British Library Document Supply Centre's services is growing steadily. This article examines the typical steps in the document request and delivery chain, and…

Document delivery: the UEA experience

David Baker, Ian Ellery, Iain Reeman, Ann Wood

This paper summarises the development, current position and future proposed enhancement of the University of East Anglia (UEA)'s electronic document delivery service. The service…

Project ION (Interlending Open Systems Network)

Peter Smith

The ION interlending project is due for completion in December 1994, having been extended from June of this year. This article presents the results to date of the project, as it…

The use of electronic document delivery at INIST

Christian Lupovici

Despite its relative youth, INIST has rapidly become an important player in the document supply scene both in France and internationally. The article describes INIST's…

BIDS and BODOS — whence and whither: the background to and the development of the BIDS Bibliographic Services and the BIDS Online Document Ordering Service

Barry Smethurst

This article first looks at the Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS) online bibliographic services from the point of view of the computing personnel who have developed and…

The LIBERTAS ILL module

Jean Bradford

Although the ILL Department at Bristol University Library would like to have automated procedures before the LIBERTAS ILL module became available in 1991, they decided that the…

The Lancaster University inter‐library loans management system: a user's view

Rob Corp

BBC Libraries and Archives have been using the Lancaster ILL System for four years. This article describes BBC interloans practices and how the automated system has been…

From CALM to CALM 2000

Documedia's new system is designed specifically for the Windows environment. It provides the full range of library management functions, all using the same graphical user…