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IFLA approves New Principles and Guidelines for International Lending and Document Delivery

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release
1 May 2001
IFLA HQ
The Hague, Netherlands

The shared use of individual library collections is a necessary element of international co-operation by libraries. Just as no library can be self-sufficient in meeting all the information needs of its users, so no country can be self-sufficient. The supply of loans and copies between libraries in different countries is a valuable and necessary part of the process of Interlibrary Lending (ILL).

Recently IFLA's Professional Board approved a completely new set of principles and guidelines for International Lending and Document Delivery. These were prepared in a close cooperation between the IFLA Office for International Lending and the IFLA Section on Document Delivery and Interlending.

Sara Gould, Programme Officer, IFLA/UAP Office at the British Library said:
"The sharing of library resources is an important element in ensuring improved access to published material. The revision of these Principles ensures their relevance in the 21st century, and should offer guidance to libraries in carrying out interlibrary lending between different countries. I hope that ILL departments throughout the world will find them a useful guide when requesting and supplying items on interlibrary loan."

The full text of the Principles and Guidelines for Procedure can be found here http://archive.ifla.org/VI/2/p3/ildd.htm

For more information contact:
Ms Sara Gould
IFLA UAP Office
British Library Document Supply Centre BOSTON SPA, Wetherby
West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(1937)546254/546255
Fax +(44)(1937)546478
E-mail: ifla@bl.uk

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