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Several members of this journal’s editorial advisory board give brief views on how they see the future of interlending and document supply. The article concludes with an overview of these contributions, together with additional comments by an editorial board member

Reports on a study sponsored by the Robert Vosper IFLA Fellows Programme concerning interlibrary loan policies and the restrictions on the availability of publications in selected libraries in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Venezuela. The libraries were selected because of their collections on ecology, food technology and public health topics. Shows that in none of the countries is there an effective national centre which acts as a main agency for developing and maintaining union catalogues to allow direct access to relevant collections within each country and to provide loan and information services to other libraries. To promote the improvement of interlending procedures and plant the seed for the creation of a national interlibrary loan and document delivery centre, it was decided to adopt Cornish′s guide Model Handbook for Interlending and Copying. The guide proved to be useful for interlending operations and helped to reduce some of the obstacles identified by the libraries at the beginning of the study.

In spite of the great strides that have been made in recent years in improving Mexico’s transportation and communication systems, obtaining material through interlibrary loan is still often difficult. Focuses on two relatively small but successful programs that have been organized by the Grupo Amigos and the Transborder Library Forum (Foro). Both programs are important due to their international focus, but the latter program is particularly interesting due to changes that are being made at the Mexican coordinating library to allow end users to prepare their own ILL requests via the library’s Web page. Compares the two programs and speculates on the future of interlibrary loan in Mexico.

This bibliography of journals and newsletters published in Spanish in the field of library and information science is designed to present the most complete bibliographic information possible. It includes not only currently available publications, but also those that have ceased publication. In addition, the general characteristics of these publications will be described.