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LC, IFLA, OCLC Begin International Interlibrary-Loan Pilot

The Library of Congress, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and OCLC are developing a joint pilot project to create an electronic reimbursement system for international interlibrary loans.

The pilot is the direct result of discussions at the fifth International Interlending Conference, held last August in Aarhus, Denmark, where representatives from all three institutions and others looked at the objections of various lenders to handling physical vouchers in an age of electronic requests.

The project will explore ways to use OCLC's Interlibrary-loan Fee Management (IFM) system to manage reimbursements now handled with plastic vouchers issued by IFLA's Universal Availability of Publications office.

Posted April 13, 1998.

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