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Purpose

The paper seeks to provide an overview of the approach taken by the Danish library community towards the automation of ILL and end‐user loan requests.

Design/methodology/approach

The physical union catalogue DanBib is explained, along with Bibliotek.dk, which is the end‐user web interface to the public union catalogue. A detailed description is given of the development of an end‐user ILL system.

Findings

This facility is currently being tested and implementation is scheduled for the end of 2006.

Originality/value

The paper will be of interest to all librarians who wish to empower end users in searching for and obtaining material in which they are interested.

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