Inter library loan service is to disseminate our resource to other libraries...

1. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Vikram Sarabhai Library
Presentation on : ‘’ A Brief about Interlibrary Loan’’
Presented To:
Dr. Anilkumar, H.
My Teachers &
My Friends.
VSL IIMA
Guided By:
Mr. Viral Navik
Ms. Asha Desai

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Need
• Process
• ILL Statistics
• What we are doing?
• Conclusion
• References

3. Introduction
“The inter library loan means sharing of the
resources of one library by the other libraries on
demand, when they are needed by its user i.e.
sharing one’s scholarly materials with others”.
It also called as DDS, Inter lending, resource
sharing, etc.
Reference : Kent, A. L. and P. P. and P. P. (1974). Resource sharing in libraries, why how, when
next action steps. Marcel Dekker.

4. Cont…
The sharing of library resources started with the
concept of inter library loan, under which a library
can get a document from another library on loan
for a certain period.
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5. Need?
All libraries can’t procure all the information.
Due to;
• Tremendous increase of resources.
• Lack of space in libraries.
• Lack of Budget
And to fulfill the need of our users.
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6. Who are the User’s?
• Research Students, Faculty, Staff, etc.
• External i.e. Other libraries.
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7. Process
Interlibrary loan has two operations: borrowing
and lending.
• Borrowing: Books, Articles, (from Group Libraries )
• Lending: Books, Articles, other project related
information (For Internal Members ).
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8. Cont.…
• By emailing.
• By manually.
• Through telephones
• By chat
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9. We can Get…
• Books
• Articles
• Cd / DVD’s#
• Theses#
• Project Reports#
(# If possible)
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10. We can’t get…
• Rare Collections
• Software
• Reference collections, etc.
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11. Current Development
• ‘Worldshare’ by OCLC’
https://oclc.org/worldshare-ill/ordering.en.html
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12. The helping tools
• INFLIBNET INDcat / GUJcat
• NUCCSI
• DELNET
• NISCAIR
The union catalogs are helping in search of
books/Journals/Articles located or available in
particular libraries…

13. What we are doing?
In our library the Interlibrary section serves our
users in different approach.
• Analyzing request
• Quick Response
• Orientations

14. ILL Statistics
• We are maintaining ILL statistics with the help
of an Excel sheet.

15. Conclusion
Thus, this is about my section (Interlibrary loan
section). Anyway, the theme of this section is to
serve the users in different approaches as much
as possible.

16. References
• Kent, A. L. and P. P. and P. P. (1974). Resource sharing in libraries, why how, when
next action steps. Marcel Dekker.
• Library Resource Sharing and Networking - Free Online UGC NET / SET / SLET
Guide in Library and Information Science. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2014,
from http://www.netugc.com/library-resource-sharing-and-networking

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