...Pat Clinton This survey is a follow‐up to one undertaken in 1994. The aim was to discover latest library practice regarding charging and other related issues for interlibrary loans in UK university libraries. Of the 325 questionnaires sent, 170 (52 per cent) responded and of those, 120 libraries...

... cooperative schemes have been put into place. Charging Collection management Co‐operatives Document supply Interlending © MCB UP Limited 1999 However, there are several obstacles to this development. First, there is the ever‐present funding problem. Joining consortia requires initial...

...: and “resource sharing” are yielding to accounting principles and business processes. Charging for loans is becoming an acceptable practice. Which leads to the question, where did we get the idea that loans should be free in the first place? Early proponents of interlibrary loans in the USA did not shrink from...

...Sara Gould Reviews current literature in the field of interlending and document supply. Topics covered include UAP, national library policy, public libraries, resource sharing, distance education students, electronic copyright management and charging between libraries. Elsewhere, Balarabe[ 8...

...Graham P Cornish Discusses the arguments for and against the trend of charging for interlibrary loans. Considers the costs of interlending, sources of information, the charging situation in the United Kingdom, Europe,former USSR, USA and Canada, and Australia, as well as the reasons...

...Glenda Myers Addresses the issues of charging for interlibrary loans with particular reference to the experience at the University of Wittwatersrand, South Africa. Considers definitions of the information poor and the information rich and the cost of equal access to information. Proposes a method...