Library information and resource sharing : transforming services and collections / Beth Posner, editor ; foreword by Anne K. Beaubien.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Introduction to library and information resource sharing / Beth Posner -- Interlibrary loan services today / Heather Weltin -- From discovery to delivery : providing access to library collections / Jessica McGivney -- Thinking locally and sharing globally : the impact of library policies on collection sharing / Seangill (Peter) Bae -- Library collection building : the interlocking functions of ill, acquisitions, and collection development / Keri Goergen-Doll, Angela Rathmel, and Leon Lars -- Facilitating information sharing through library collection maintenance and preservation / Tina Baich and Sherri Michaels -- Sharing digital collections and content / J. Silvia Cho and LeEtta Schmidt -- The evolution of library resource sharing / Collette Mak.

Through the perspectives of interlibrary loan (ILL) specialists, this book examines what ILL departments are doing, the value of ILL librarians in the evolving library environment, and how library collections and services are being affected by new ILL policies. Tapping a knowledge base of more than a dozen ILL practitioners, Posner offers diverse viewpoints on all that ILL specialists can do to help connect people and information, enabling library administrators, whose support ILL needs to succeed, to grasp how ILL is essential to fulfilling the information-sharing mission of all librarians. This volume also emphasizes how the ever-increasing interconnections between ILL and other areas of library activity behoove non-ILL librarians to be more aware of emerging ILL developments.

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