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Borrow Direct is an interlibrary loan service that allows member university students, faculty, and staff with library borrowing privileges and active e-mail accounts to borrow books directly from the libraries of the other member universities. The patrons' home library bears the cost of the service and there is no charge to patrons.
VDX (standing for Virtual Document eXchange) is a software product for interlibrary loan (ILL) and document request management. [1] VDX was developed by UK company Fretwell-Downing Informatics, a company which in 2005 was taken over by OCLC PICA, itself wholly acquired by OCLC Online Computer Library Center in 2007. [1]
Picking up books requested through interlibrary loan. Inter-library loan (abbreviated ILL, sometimes called document delivery, document supply, inter-lending, inter-library services, inter-loan, or resource sharing) is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow materials that are held by another library. [1]
A library portal is an interface to access library resources and services through a single access and management point for users: for example, by combining the circulation and catalog functions of an integrated library system (ILS) with additional tools and facilities.
This survey found significant barriers to conducting interlibrary loan for ebooks. [10] Demand-driven acquisition (DDA) has been around for a few years in public libraries, which allows vendors to streamline the acquisition process by offering to match a library's selection profile to the vendor's e-book titles.
Pius has the ability to offer students resources that the library does not have through an interlibrary loan program called ILLiad. Through an online account, one may use ILLiad to place, track, and keep a history of loan requests. One may also use ILLiad to access electronic copies of articles as PDFs. [8]
The network provides library patrons with access to check out and return items at member libraries, [4] interlibrary loans through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners' Commonwealth Catalog, [5] [6] mobile app access, [7] and access to electronic collections (including OverDrive).
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