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Discusses how costs and risks involved with shipping returnable ILL materials across national boundaries act as major barriers to scholarship. Describes recent efforts by members of the Research Libraries Group’s SHARES programme to study and overcome these barriers. Suggests some actions that could result in the international sharing of valuable “research objects” becoming routine.

The traditional inter‐library loan of monographs is often seen as the future niche of interlending activity, with journal article supply being catered for by other means, such as full text access through e‐journals. Examines how a monograph interlending pilot project, undertaken by CURL institutions, is part of a move towards a more distributed interlending model for the UK. Describes the project, presents statistical figures, and outlines results from feedback questionnaires. Shows the relationship to SHARES, RLG’s interlending program, and how the pilot has affected international interlending. Calls for other models to support the new interlending paradigm.

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/02641619910299254. When citing the article, please cite: Nancy E. Elkington, Dennis Massie, (1999), “The changing nature of international resource sharing: risks and benefits of collaboration”, Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 27 Iss: 4, pp. 148 - 154.

This paper seeks to explore five forces likely to significantly affect interlending operations in the near term: the transition from print to electronic resources; management of legacy print collections; mass digitization projects; competition from other information providers; and copyright.

The author uses data from authoritative sources to illustrate the effects these forces are having and will continue to have on libraries and ILL operations.

The author predicts that most libraries will be slow to divest themselves of print monographs on a large scale; libraries will continue to build new offsite storage facilities but put more thought into their contents; increased discoverability of digitized texts and greater copyright restrictions will drive users to print; librarians will make gray areas of copyright law work for them instead of against them; publishers, librarians, authors, lawyers, and scholars will find a responsible and fair solution to providing digital access to “orphan” works; and ILL will persist as a core operation for nearly all libraries.

This paper provides a unique look at forces that are shaping the future of global ILL activities.

Discusses the context for international interlending in historical terms, and the Research Libraries Group’s SHARES programme. Characterizes the current state of international interlending and provides some thoughts on the prospects, barriers, risks and benefits of international interlending. Reports on a survey conducted by RLG and closes with suggestions on the best way to become collaborative opportunists.

This keynote address identifies and describes ten trends in interlending and document supply over the period 2003 through to 2008.

The paper's aim is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply and related matters.

The paper is based on the reading of over 150 journals, as well as monographs, reports and web sites.

The Finch report in the UK recommends the Gold route to open access and with this a tipping point would appear to have been reached for open access – at least where authors are funded. More papers from the 12th ILDS conference are reviewed.

The paper represents a useful source for librarians and others concerned with interlending and document supply as well as such related matters as resource sharing and open access.

This paper, an update of that presented at the 9th IFLA Interlending and Document Supply Conference, describes the implementation of the ISO‐ILL protocol between the University of Auckland and Te Puna Interloan, and the University of Auckland and Kinetica Document Delivery (now Libraries Australia Document Delivery). It backgrounds the context and traverses a number of issues central to the ISO‐ILL implementations.

The article combines narrative and analysis of the projects from the perspective of each of the implementing libraries.

The authors report on various aspects of their work, including business models, anticipated and actual benefits from the implementations, testing, lessons learned and a brief look into the future. They conclude that planning and rigorous testing are significant ingredients to success and that communication to the user body is also a vital factor.

The work undertaken may provide other libraries with a model for similar implementations.

The implementation between Te Puna Interloan and the University of Auckland is the first implementation of the ISO‐ILL protocol in New Zealand and represents a major breakthrough in interlending in New Zealand. The integration of two national utilities into the one interloan management system, the University of Auckland VDX system, is believed to be the first of its kind.

This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of the Group Interlibrary Loan Best Practices instituted by the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) Libraries in 2002 and to examine whether these best practices are still viable today. The authors aims to provide an updated discussion on current best practices in both GWLA and other highly effective library consortia.

The authors use a case study approach to identify areas where interlibrary loan best practices have improved service amongst the GWLA Libraries. In addition, the practices of other high performing consortia are included to further the discussion.

The GWLA Libraries found that the best practices implemented in 2002 improved service by decreasing turnaround time and increasing patron access to alternate format types. Other library consortia are also using similar group best practices that improve resource sharing.

This article focuses mostly on the beneficial outcomes of the best practices and limits discussion of the problems and pitfalls encountered.

Readers will gain an understanding of how instituting group best practices can improve interlibrary loan service and recognize the benefit of library groups.