IRRT (International Relations Round Table)

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The mission of the International Relations Round Table is to promote interest in library issues and librarianship worldwide; to help coordinate international activities within ALA, serving as a liaison between the International Relations Committee and those members of the Association interested in international relations; to develop programs and activities which further the international objectives of ALA; and to provide hospitality and information to visitors from abroad.



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  • 1.  International ILL Toolkit

    Posted May 18, 2021 12:41 PM

    Sharing on behalf of the OCLC Shares consortium
    *Apologies for cross-posting    *

     

    Colleagues:

    We're excited to share a new and useful tool with you:  The International ILL Toolkit!

    This crowd-sourced effort, initiated by the OCLC SHARES consortium, is freely available to all ILL practitioners in the global resource sharing community.

    By exploring the document's tabs, you can use the Toolkit to:

    • Discover known lenders outside the U.S. who are not on the OCLC network, but do take international ILL requests. Some do not have any holdings in WorldCat, and others do but don't take requests through OCLC resource sharing.  Using the entries, you can check overseas online catalogs for foreign materials and contact lenders for copies or loans via email or web form after you've exhausted OCLC lenders.
    • Identify U.S. lenders that accept requests from overseas libraries not on the OCLC resource sharing network.  Volunteer your library as an international lender using this form.
    • Discover Tips and Tricks for international ILL by country/region.
    • Find translated ILL request templates in different languages, and copy and paste them into an email you'd like to send to a foreign library.  This could increase your odds of obtaining a reply (and Google Translate can be used to translate responses back to English).

    The International ILL Toolkit can be bookmarked or downloaded as an Excel file for local use.

    If you have new entries to suggest or want to identify your library as one that accepts international copy and/or loan requests from libraries not on the OCLC resource sharing network, please use the links in the gray boxes at the top of the appropriate tabbed page to fill out a brief submission form.  We'd love to add info about your library's lending operations, international request and delivery methods, ability to accept IFLA vouchers, etc.  Additional suggestions for the Toolkit and edits are also invited. 

    We hope you find value in this tool!

    The OCLC SHARES International ILL Toolkit editors

    Brian Miller, Head of Interlibrary Services, The Ohio State University, miller.2507@osu.edu

    Lapis Cohen, Borrowing Specialist, University of Pennsylvania, lapis@upenn.edu

    Dennis Massie, Program Officer and SHARES Coordinator, OCLC Research, massied@oclc.org

     

    International ILL Toolkit URL:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bL94PplzLTXYyxWNRnwQj4cn6YhCo62V4kFHhW0S15E/edit?usp=sharing



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    Renna Redd
    Interlibrary Loan Librarian
    Clemson University
    She/Her/Hers
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