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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.
The libraries use an interlibrary loan system between all 13 locations, and allows for loan requests from other counties and areas. [6] Those with a valid library card to York Country Libraries are able to reserve materials online and pick them up in their local library.
It works around the digital rights management built into online-store-published e-books by limiting access to a purchased e-book file to the borrower, resulting in loss of access to the file by the purchaser for the duration of the borrowing period. As of 2014, over 90% of U.S. public libraries offer ebook lending. [1]
Library management is a sub-discipline of institutional management that focuses on specific issues faced by libraries and library management professionals. Library management encompasses normal managerial tasks, as well as intellectual freedom and fundraising responsibilities.
Mullins Library East Facade Mullins Library west side. The David W. Mullins Library is the main research library of the University of Arkansas.The University Libraries also include the Robert A. and Vivian Young Law Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Chemistry and Biochemistry Library, and the Physics Library.
In 1999, Johnson & Johnson had signed a contract with a company called Excerpta Medica. Its specialty was medical marketing. Its sub-specialty was producing ghostwritten, data-filled studies on the efficacy and safety of a client’s drugs, finding the right academic scholars to be listed as the authors and then placing the articles in prestigious academic journals.
OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, [4] is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". [2]