Alternatives to Traditional Interlibrary Loan Borrowing Amy Paulus Interlibrary Loan Librarian University of Iowa Main Library Midwest Interlibrary Loan Conference April 13, 2007

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

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 University’s “Books on Demand” piloted in 2000 Willard (MI) Public Library in 2000 University of North Carolina, Wilmington in University of Hong Kong in 2002 implemented “Overseas Book Loan Initiative” Indiana State University

Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions: UI Criteria Books only (no dissertations, music CDs, videos, DVD’s, 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)

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 message to original ILL patron of availability Patron picks up material and checks out ILL Librarian tracks records manually

Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions: UI Statistics (Numbers) 128: Items purchased 6: Items rejected for purchase 2: Items still on order

Purchase on Demand via Acquisitions: UI Statistics (Cost) Total Spent: $7, $57.75 (Average) $ (Highest) $6.59 (Lowest) 48: Number of Requests above $50 (requiring selector approval) 79: Number of Requests below $50 (automatically ordered)

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

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

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 –ILLiad generated to acquisitions –No more paper requests, everything tracked within ILLiad

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 – –Listed as supplier

Other Suppliers on OCLC Casalini Libri (C3L) in Italy – NGhttp:// NG Iberbook International (I5B) in Spain – Jean Touzot Libraire (TZT) in France – scripts/home/home.asp?Language=enhttp://search.touzot.fr/tz- scripts/home/home.asp?Language=en

Vendors but not suppliers on OCLC Puvill Libros (PL#) in Spain – Baker and Taylor (Baker) in Ohio, U.S. – Otto Harrassowitz (OHX) in Germany –

Dissertation Express ertations/dexplib.shtml for information and enrollmenthttp://il.proquest.com/products_umi/diss ertations/dexplib.shtml Main menu options and login at Searching for a dissertation Billing options UI Usage

Dissertation Express 23 requests from Graduate Students 11 requests from College of Education 5 dissertations are Stanford’s 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.

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

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

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.

NetFlix Advantages –Fast –Cheap, depending on subscription –User agreement okay for libraries –Due dates flexible, no overdues –Don’t have to send out multiple requests via OCLC so saves staff time

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

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

CISTI E-books cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/ebooks_e.htmlhttp://cisti-icist.nrc- cnrc.gc.ca/media/press/ebooks_e.html cnrc.gc.ca/screens/help_myilibrary.htmlhttp://cat.cisti-icist.nrc- cnrc.gc.ca/screens/help_myilibrary.html

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