Citation
(2004), "CURL/BL monograph project", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 32 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2004.12232dab.015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
CURL/BL monograph project
CURL/BL monograph project
Books tend to be forgotten in all the exciting developments in serials. However they remain a vast and increasing resource (110,000 new monographs published in the UK alone last year). The BLDSC Plus project is an exciting project that will look at more effective exploitation of the vast resources at BLDSC and other key research libraries. We publish below a note from Jill Evans who kindly wrote it for this review.
I was appointed in May 2004 as Manager of a one-year post jointly funded by the British Library and Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) to explore further and take forward the principal recommendations made in the report “Monograph inter-lending for the higher education research community.” This was jointly commissioned by British Library and CURL in 2003. The report recommended the adoption and implementation of a “BLDSC Plus” option which would involve the British Library forming a consortium with a range of partner libraries willing to provide monograph inter lending services to defined service standards and charges. The project will make specific recommendations, including governance mechanisms, service levels, IT specifications, pricing and payment policies. Some of the aims of my post are to discuss and agree the prior implementation scoping recommendations with the key organisations, involved including the British Library, the other national libraries, CURL, (the soon to be created) Research Libraries Network, a sample of research librarians and with the wider community via a broad cross-sectoral consultation exercise. I am presently concentrating on preparing an environmental study identifying the main issues to inform the development of the project, gathering relevant data, and engaging in a dialogue with ILL practitioners, key players and stakeholders.
The report is available at: www.curl.ac.uk/projects/Monographfinal.pdf
Jill Evans can be contacted at: j.evans@nls.uk