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How the West was one: using VDX to redevelop cooperative
document delivery services in Western Australian university
libraries
Dan Archibald,
Toby Burrows and Carolyn
McDonald
Abstract | Paper in
Portable Document Format (PDF) Presentation in Microsoft® PowerPoint®
format
The West Australian Group of
University Librarians (WAGUL), which includes Curtin University, Edith Cowan
University, Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia have a
long history of successful collaborative ventures. A well-established
cooperative interlending agreement is one notable venture that has operated
successfully for a number of years. To further enhance this service WAGUL
decided to participate in the national Local Interlending and Document Delivery
Administration System (LIDDAS) Project with the objective of implementing an
automated system, using VDX software, to manage document delivery activity.
Although joining as Phase 2 participants WAGUL was the first group within
LIDDAS to start using the system live. Since 2002, VDX has been used for the
transmission of requests and documents between the WAGUL member libraries. The
success of this project has largely been the result of the four institutions
working together to share work, expertise and problem-solving.
In this paper, we will discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of working collaboratively, specifically looking
at the process of implementing a "cutting-edge" automated cooperative document
delivery system and will examine the effects of this implementation on document
delivery practices in academic libraries. |