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In the past three to five years, those of us working in Interlibrary Loan have seen an increase in the number of local “home‐grown” electronic ILL systems. Typically, these systems were designed in response to patron desires, but sometimes the electronic requesting systems were created to help Interlibrary Loan staff. After all, it is much easier to read a printed request than a handwritten request.

THE EMOTIVE term ‘over‐supply’ has been used for some years' in the library profession, particularly by those senior librarians who have experienced large numbers of applicants for each junior professional post they have advertised. The existence of an over‐supply has also been denied from time to time—not too recently, perhaps—or, at best, misgivings have been soothed by the feeling that unemployment in librarianship might not compare unfavourably with unemployment in other professions, and the general problem of graduate unemployment is a national factor quite unrelated to specific professions.

The purpose of this paper is to describe Article Exchange – OCLC’s cloud-based document delivery service.

In this study, Article Exchange is described in detail.

Article Exchange has proved popular with OCLC users with more than 50,000 documents uploaded in January 2013 alone by more than 1,000 libraries.

The new service facilitates improved delivery of documents electronically.

This article is useful for all librarians who are concerned with delivering documents electronically in an increasingly complex technical and legal environment.

In the last issue of OCLC Systems and Services we examined a feasibility study being conducted by a few libraries and OCLC. This study was designed to explore the possibility of linking a library′s local ILL electronic request system to OCLC. The OCLC link eliminates the rekeying of patron requests, which reduces the ILL staff workload and speeds request inputting, both of which would be beneficial to any Interlibrary Loan department. Of the four participants in the study, one site, Southeast Florida Information Network, has entered its testing mode, and only one site, Colorado State University, has successfully implemented and is currently using this link.

Discusses some of the implications of the Internet for interlibrary lending operations. Examines the benefits for ILL managers of comparing operations and ideas with those found in other lending institutions.

Ashton‐Tate's dBASE, in its various versions, is undoubtedly the most widely used database management program in libraries. Scores of articles in the library literature describe dBASE applications in libraries. They are usually written by enthusiastic dBASE users who have discovered how to bend and twist the program to accomplish a library specific application. The articles vary greatly in accuracy, documentation, and usefulness.

The M300XT Workstation is no longer available from OCLC. As you may know, IBM has stopped manufacture of its XT microcomputer and OCLC's inventory was exhausted June 20.