Resource Sharing in Libraries [Paperback]

Supplementing your local collection through resource sharing is a smart way to ensure your library has the resources to satisfy the needs of your users. Marshall Breeding s new Library Technology Report explores technologies and strategies for sharing resources, helping you streamline workflows and improve resource-sharing services. Covering key strategies like interlibrary loan, consortial borrowing, document delivery, and shared collections, you ll also learn about such trends and services as:

• OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing, and other systems that facilitate cooperative, reciprocal lending
• System-to-system communications that allow integrated systems to interact with resource-sharing environments
• Technical components that reliably automate patron requests, routing to suppliers with tools for tracking, reporting, and staff intervention as needed
• Specialized applications that simplify document delivery, such as Ariel, Odyssey, or OCLC s Article Exchange
• How the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) can enable borrowing among consortial libraries using separate integrated library systems
• The Orbis Cascade Alliance consortium, examined using a case study