From Committees of RUSA: Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States

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  • STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.55n4.306

Abstract

The Reference and User Services Association, acting for the American Library Association in its adoption of this code, recognizes that the sharing of material between libraries is a core library service and believes it to be in the public interest to encourage such an exchange.

In the interest of providing quality service, libraries have an obligation to obtain material to meet the informational needs of users when local resources do not meet those needs. Interlibrary loan (ILL), a mechanism for obtaining material, is essential to the vitality of all libraries.

The effectiveness of the national interlibrary loan system depends upon participation of libraries of all types and sizes.

This code establishes principles that facilitate the requesting of material by a library and the provision of loans or copies in response to those requests.

Author Biography

STARS Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee

Prepared by the Interlibrary Loan Committee, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 1994, revised 2001. Revised by the Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee, Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) 2008 and 2015. Approved by RUSA Board January 11, 2016.

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Published

2016-07-01

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Vol. 55 No. 4 (2016): Summer

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From Committees of RUSA

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