Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: Expand ASERL's Reciprocal ILL Agreement to WRLC Libs?

[John Burger (jburger]

Kudzu Friends:

 

We are having a few conversations with our colleagues at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) about opportunities for greater collaboration.  The discussions started with the possibility of sharing archived print journal materials (both ASERL and WRLC offer such programs for member libraries).  I am hopeful we will sign an agreement to proceed with this agreement by the end of the year.

 

Following up on this, we discussed the possibility of expanding our reciprocal ILL agreement (the standard agreement, *not* the enhanced Kudzu agreement) so that ASERL and WRLC libraries would process requests from other ASERL and WRLC libraries “as quickly as possible within four days of receipt.”  Additionally, all fees would be waived for such transactions on both sides (borrowing by ASERL libs from WRLC libs and vice-versa)

 

See http://www.aserl.org/programs/ill/reciprocal-agreement/ for details about the existing ASERL Reciprocal ILL Agreement.

See http://www.wrlc.org/ for the list of eight DC-metro libraries that make up WRLC.

 

NEXT STEPS – YOUR HELP NEEDED

The ASERL Board will discuss this possibility in a few weeks.  I wanted to float the idea with y’all beforehand, in case there might be some unintended consequences of such an agreement that I should know about.

 

So what do you think about expanding the reciprocal ILL agreement to include eight DC-area research libraries?  Some are big ARLs, some smaller research libraries.  In your opinion, what are the pros and cons of such an agreement?

 

Thanks in advance for your help in thinking this through!

 

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
   ASERL
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