Developing workflows for short-term loans of ebooks as an adjunct to ILL: Part one. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sewell, Bethany B.; Link, Forrest E.
• Is Part Of: Technical services quarterly. Volume 33:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 240
• Page End: 250
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Ebooks -- interlibrary loan -- short-term loans -- workflow; Technical services (Libraries) -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Technical services (Libraries) -- Automation -- Periodicals; Library science -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; 025.0202854
• DOI: 10.1080/07317131.2016.1169779
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0731-7131

Abstract

Abstract : Advances in technology and cooperative structures have had a dramatic effect on the speed of ILL fulfillment for articles, but because of physical limitations, ILL fill speed for monographs has lagged. Having successfully improved ILL fill speed for journal articles by introducing ILLiad and RapidILL, The College of New Jersey Library investigated the possibility of expediting ILL fill for monographs by taking advantage of the speed afforded by ebook fulfillment and the attractive pricing of short-term leases of ebooks. This necessitated an assessment of the scale of ebook equivalents and the creation of new internal workflows in close consultation with our ebook vendor.