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Interlibrary loan services under the network environment -
interlibrary loan service of the National Library of
China
Li
Xiaoming
Abstract | Paper in
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National Library of China (NLC) is
the most comprehensive Chinese document delivery center in the world and the
largest foreign document delivery base in China. With the backing of its rich
collections, the library has been dedicated to document delivery services,
taking it as one of its major functions, with efficiency and accuracy. Through
our widely cooperation with libraries around the world, the library has
acquired numerous documents from home and abroad for the users' urgent needs,
thus it is well received. Now we are able to deliver documents via fax, email,
Ariel and carrier in addition to airmail.
Because of the cooperation on
resources developing and resources sharing in the library circles, and the
introduction of online catalogue, full-text databases and electronic journals,
the efficiency of document delivery is rising, the responding time is reduced;
meanwhile the business document delivery services are expanding steadily. All
in all, this will make interlibrary loan services an equal choice with
circulation.
On August 2002 NLC introduced
Alpha 500 system and has been putting all the modules into use gradually. This
paper will present a general introduction to the changes and advances of the
code of interlibrary loan of NLC, the fundamental conditions (network
infrastructure, machine readable catalogues for holdings), interlibrary loan
flow work, services, disposition of personnel under the new information
technology environment, as well ass the relations between interlibrary loan and
collection development, and the new techniques and measures adapted in the past
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