Alternatives to Traditional Interlibrary Loan Borrowing

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Alternatives to Traditional Interlibrary Loan
Borrowing

• Amy Paulus
• Interlibrary Loan Librarian
• University of Iowa Main Library
• Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference
• April 13, 2007

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Topics

• Purchase on demand
• Acquisitions
• Vendors via OCLC
• Dissertation Express
• Netflix
• CISTI E-books

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions History

• Bucknell University was the first to report the
  details of their project which began in 1990
  ILL Book Purchase Program
• Thomas Crane (MA) Public Library in 1998
• The University of Wisconsin at Madison
  implemented a pilot program called Book Express
  in 2000
• Purdue Universitys Books on Demand piloted in
  2000
• Willard (MI) Public Library in 2000
• University of North Carolina, Wilmington in
  2002-2003
• University of Hong Kong in 2002 implemented
  Overseas Book Loan Initiative
• Indiana State University

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI Criteria

• Books only (no dissertations, music CDs, videos,
  DVDs, microfilm)
• If published within past 12 months and not owned
  by an Iowa or CIC library
• If published within past 16 months and not owned
  by any library on OCLC (or only LC)
• 50 limit (higher amounts must be approved by
  bibliographer)

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI Procedure

• ILL Staff identify books using criteria
• ILL Librarian verifies and sends joint message to
  acquisitions and ILL patron
• Acquisitions rush orders or rushes if on approval
  plan
• Acquisitions receives, processes, and sends to
  circulation
• Circulation staff send out e-mail message to
  original ILL patron of availability
• Patron picks up material and checks out
• ILL Librarian tracks records manually

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI
Statistics (Numbers)

• 128 Items purchased
• 6 Items rejected for purchase
• 2 Items still on order

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI
Statistics (Cost)

• Total Spent 7,334.22
• 57.75 (Average)
• 295.15 (Highest)
• 6.59 (Lowest)
• 48 Number of Requests above 50 (requiring
  selector approval)
• 79 Number of Requests below 50 (automatically
  ordered)

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI
Statistics (Misc.)

• 1 person requested 5 items
• 59 requests from Graduate Students
• English Department has 15 of requests.
• 63 books ordered from local book store Iowa
  Book and Supply

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI
Statistics (Misc.)

• 12 of books funded through the English fund
• 30 of the books LC classification were in the P
  range, 8 were in PN
• 63 day turnaround time
• 51 items circulated once, 1 item circulated 26
  times

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Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions UI Changes
for Continuation

• Raise limit from 50 to 60
• No limits on the format
• Use of ILLiad to track
• Patron sent email
• ILLiad generated email to acquisitions
• No more paper requests, everything tracked within
  ILLiad

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Purchase on demand via vendors on OCLC

• ALIBRIS (ALBRS)
• IFM billing
• Use maxcost so not being charged over what you
  are willing to spend
• Link in WorldCat
• http//www.alibris.com/
• Listed as supplier

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Other Suppliers on OCLC

• Casalini Libri (C3L) in Italy
• http//www.casalini.it/Index.asp?LINGUAING
• Iberbook International (I5B) in Spain
• http//www.iberbook.com/indexen.htm
• Jean Touzot Libraire (TZT) in France
• http//search.touzot.fr/tz-scripts/home/home.asp?L
  anguageen

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Vendors but not suppliers on OCLC

• Puvill Libros (PL) in Spain
• http//www.puvill.com/
• Baker and Taylor (Baker) in Ohio, U.S.
• http//www.btol.com/
• Otto Harrassowitz (OHX) in Germany
• http//www.harrassowitz.de/

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Dissertation Express

• http//il.proquest.com/products_umi/dissertations/
  dexplib.shtml for information and enrollment
• Main menu options and login at http//wwwlib.umi.c
  om/dexpress/login
• Searching for a dissertation
• Billing options
• UI Usage

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Dissertation Express

• 23 requests from Graduate Students
• 11 requests from College of Education
• 5 dissertations are Stanfords
• 1970 to 2006 publication date
• Majority purchased because non-circulating but
  also for long-term loans, not on shelf, lost, in
  process, no reason given, or not owned.

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Dissertation Express

• Advantages
• 29 (cheaper rate than going through acquisitions
  or personal purchase)
• 2-5 day turnaround time
• Patron will get to keep copy
• Not all dissertations are available from
  libraries
• Increase fill rate

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Dissertation Express

• Disadvantages
• Falls outside normal workflow
• Policy/culture change from obtaining from another
  library to actually purchasing on behalf of
  patron.
• Billing issues (if you bill patrons and also
  paying invoices)
• 29 may be more expensive than your maxcost

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Netflix

• UI has ordered 5 videos since February
• 4 at a time for 23.99/month
• Used in collaboration with our Media Services
  department
• We track via ILLiad and have created a library
  address for Netflix
• We place DVDs in non-labeled containers so users
  not clearly seeing from Netflix.

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NetFlix

• Advantages
• Fast
• Cheap, depending on subscription
• User agreement okay for libraries
• Due dates flexible, no overdues
• Dont have to send out multiple requests via OCLC
  so saves staff time

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Netflix

• Disadvantages
• Many titles, but focus is not entirely on
  scholarly works
• How to handle lost item
• Workflow change
• Cost effective for academic library?
• Tracking return envelope

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CISTI E-books

• Advantages
• Turnaround time
• Save with costs associated with shipping a
  physical item
• Disadvantages
• Most do not want to read a book on a computer
  screen
• Workflow change

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CISTI E-books

• http//cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/eboo
  ks_e.html
• http//cat.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/screens/help
  _myilibrary.html

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Questions?