Session Number
20
Date of this Version
May 1979
Recommended Citation
Sven Westberg and Nancy Fjallbrant,
"The Development of DOCLINE - An Interlibrary Lending Link Between the BLLD and Chalmers University Library."
Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences.
Paper 17.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1979/papers/17
COinS
May 31st, 12:00 AM
The Development of DOCLINE - An Interlibrary Lending Link Between the BLLD and Chalmers University Library
Comments
This paper describes an attempt to improve interlibrary lending services at Chalmers University of Technology Library, Gothenburg, Sweden, with respect to satisfaction rate, speed and decreased costs, by the establishment of a computer-based link - DOCLINE - for the transmission of a interlibrary requests to the BLLD. An account is given of the Swedish interlibrary lending network, and the reasons for trying to improve the availability, direct or indirect, for high frequency loan materials at Chalmers Library. The development of the DOCLINE link between Chalmers Library and the BLLD is described and a short account of the programmes used and the operation of the system is given. This is followed by a discussion on the improvement of the interlibrary lending service at Chalmers University. The need for detailed evaluation is pointed out.