Gemma Burke, Erin Duncan and JL Smither
The paper aims to show how using a resource-sharing service can help you provide more resources to your users.
Abstract
Purpose
The paper aims to show how using a resource-sharing service can help you provide more resources to your users.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper discusses interlibrary loan challenges and opportunities, specifically with reference to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan.
Findings
This paper describes the service that connects libraries to the largest cooperative resource-sharing network with more than 10,000 borrowing and lending libraries worldwide, the possibilities for the future, facts and figures and how libraries around the world have used the solution successfully.
Originality/value
This paper looks at how WorldShare Interlibrary Loan can help libraries overcome the challenges that they face regarding resource sharing.
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The preservation of health is ultimately the responsibility of each individual person. It differs fundamentally from the treatment of disease, which has been delegated to…
Abstract
The preservation of health is ultimately the responsibility of each individual person. It differs fundamentally from the treatment of disease, which has been delegated to health‐care professionals. In this paper I consider certain health‐care behaviours, and then comment on issues relevant to prophylactic medicines.