ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 75 | June 2005
Report on the Kinetica Document Delivery Service The Expert Advisory Group on Document Delivery was formed in late 2003 on the recommendation of the Kinetica Advisory Committee, to review the business model for the Kinetica Document Delivery Service (KDD) and investigate areas for development of the service. Over the past five years, the Australian interlending environment has been marked by an overall reduction in interlending, development of local consortia, increased utilisation of commercial supply services and increasing automation of local interlending systems. In March, the Expert Advisory Group on Kinetica Document Delivery released its Final Report which considers future directions for the KDD servicewithin the changing interlibrary lending environment. The Group found that KDD is considered to be a major and highly effective means of requesting items and copies from other libraries. KDD provides access to the National Bibliographic Database (NBD) providing key infrastructure for resource sharing and discovery in The Group’s Final Report examines trends in interlibrary loans, evaluates the KDD service and identifies avenues for improvement of the service including:
The full report can viewed at: <www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/eag_kdd.html>. |
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