ShareIt - future directions for collections and practice in ILLs / DD - Cheryl Hamill - Australian Library and Information Association

ShareIt – future directions
for collections and practice
in ILLs / DD
Cheryl Hamill

ShareIt

• ShareIt Resource Sharing Futures 2018 Conference 10-
  11 May 2018, National Library of Australia
• What's the future of resource sharing? Does it have a
  future?
• ALIA Interlibrary Lending Advisory Committee
  (ALIALAC)
• National Library of Australia. Libraries Australia
  Document Delivery Futures Group (LADD Futures
  Group)

We navigate through tribal networks

A case study – Jan 2017 – Jun 2018
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             Requested            Requsted - Other         Requested        Supplied        Supplied
           GratisNet = 908   (all sources, incl LADD) =   LADD = 350   GratisNet = 5,777   LADD = 629
                                        1,974

Library clients requested 2,882 items in total (93% were articles).

367 items requested were freely available and 738 were supplied from own
collection. The rest were obtained from NLM, LADD, Subito, PPV.

A case study – Jan 2017 – Apr 2018
LADD – requests for our clients                       LADD – supplied by our Library

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      LADD Requests = 413   LADD Filled = 350          LADD Requests Supplied = 773   LADD Filled = 629

Sustainability?
• Collections are shrinking, legacy print collections in
  particular
• Requesting practices are poor (ILLs staff report)
• Holdings records are patchy in quality
• It’s too hard for many special libraries (1 or 2 person
  libraries) to navigate outside of their networks – to
  upload holdings, submit and receive requests from
  multiple systems
• Libraries that are net suppliers will be making
  cost/benefit calculations of staying in networks
• Do we have a system that requires different policy
  approaches – for legacy print and e-collections?

Sustainability?
• Should there be differential charges for supply from
  print vs e-resources?
• Is it possible to have a national sharing agenda or will it
  need to be organised by sector? What happens to
  libraries that lack a national advocacy forum – no
  Australian NLM?
• Is a common network system feasible (either one
  system or an interoperable system that links networks)?
• Would we really build systems such as this if we were
  starting over?

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Key issues discussed
• there is a need for a clear vision for the future direction
  of Australia’s resource sharing framework
• resource sharing in Australia is complex and
  fragmented, and is evolving without planning or
  structure
• libraries are utilising and accessing myriad local and
  sectoral networks as well as the national system to
  meet their resource sharing needs—often loading the
  same data into numerous systems
• there are problems with the current national system
  and model that we need to address: how do we do
  that?

Key issues discussed
• decisions about the national service need to be
  evidence based and have ‘buy in’ from the different
  library sectors
• a better understanding of the whole resource sharing
  landscape, beyond the national service, is needed to
  enable the ILL community to plan for the future and
  make evidence-based decisions
• sectors have different perspectives and drivers. It is
  challenging to achieve common definitions for
  concepts such as ‘equitable’.

Key issues discussed
• e-resources have brought benefits and challenges. Into
  the future, providing user access will be strongly
  determined by developments around access to
  electronic materials. This is affecting different sectors in
  different ways.
• constrained budgets are having an impact on the
  delivery of library services
• there is goodwill among libraries, as well as a desire to
  collaborate

Key issues discussed
• there is a general desire to move from a segmented
  network to a more connected future—but connected
  is likely to look very different into the future to now
• it is timely to have focused strategic attention upon
  resource sharing, as changes and challenges have
  grown while library leaderships have often been
  focused elsewhere.

Next steps
• write up and distribute a summary of outcomes of the
  Share it strategic workshop so that delegates can
  report back to their sectors and continue the
  conversation about the future of resources sharing in
  Australia (Libraries Australia; Share it Day 2 delegates)
• publish a series of articles on resource sharing in
  Australia and the Share it events (Libraries Australia;
  ALIA; Share it Day 2 delegates)
• establish a steering group to bring together the
  different viewpoints and needs of sectors. Using
  evidence-based information, develop a vision and
  identify and investigate options for the future of
  national resource sharing in Australia post VDX
  (Libraries Australia to establish/convene)

Next steps
• complete the analysis of the Libraries Australia member
  survey and the ALIA ILL Advisory Committee survey,
  and make findings available (Libraries Australia; ALIA
  ILL Advisory Committee)
• collect and analyse institution and sector statistics and
  data on transaction costs by networks and systems.
  Share findings and work with the steering group (once
  established) (delegates; sector groups; steering group).

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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footprints. I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the
pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and
effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough
and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose, Mrs
Rawlinson.
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Mrs Rawlinson?
No, neither do I, Mrs Rawlinson, but we intend to find out. A pleasure talking
to you, Mrs Rawlinson. Goodbye."

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us
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