Digitising instead of mailing or shipping: a new approach to interlibrary loan through customer‐related digitisation of monographs

Abstract

While document delivery of journal articles has seen some remarkable progress, interlibrary loan (ILL) of monographs is still carried out in the way it started; to satisfy the need of a single user the book is delivered from site to site by post. The BOOKS2U! project will investigate the possibility of a new approach where the requested monograph is digitised and the digital surrogates are made available on a digital library Web site. The project is carried out by the libraries of the Universities of Graz (http://www.kfunigraz. ac.at/ub/) and Innsbruck (http://ub.uibk.ac.at/) and the Department of Computer Science for the Blind (i3s3) (http://www.aib.uni‐linz.ac.at/) of the University of Linz, which together are forming the Austrian Literature Online (ALO) working group. The results of the project will be summarised in a feasibility study.

Citation

Mühlberger, G. (2002), "Digitising instead of mailing or shipping: a new approach to interlibrary loan through customer‐related digitisation of monographs", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1108/02641610210430523