8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference, Canberra Australia 28-31 October 2003
 



Louis Houle
Head Serials and ILL/Document Delivery, McGill University, Canada

Louis joined the McGill Libraries' staff in 1990 as a reference librarian in the Schulich Library after having spent one year in the Blacker-Wood Library on a temporary basis. Since 1997, he has been head of the ILL/Document Delivery department, first in Schulich and then assuming system-wide responsibility. He is always looking for new services to improve the dissemination of information to the end-user. In December 2001, he took on the position Head of Serials where he is responsible for providing access to and maintenance of electronic resources, acquiring, organizing, and ensuring ongoing access to a broad array of electronic resources. He serves as an active member on several committees in the provincial consortium in the areas of ILL, electronic access, consortium negotiations and licensing agreements, and other topics. He has introduced a document delivery system at McGill which has helped the libraries cope with the massive journal cuts in the last few years. He works closely with faculty and students, giving seminars on document delivery, as well as being the collections/liaison librarian for four departments.

 

 

 
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