Interlending trending: a look ahead from atop the data pile

摘要: Purpose – This paper seeks to explore five forces likely significantly affect interlending operations in the near term: transition from print electronic resources; management of legacy collections; mass digitization projects; competition other information providers; and copyright. Design/methodology/approach The author uses data authoritative sources illustrate effects these are having will continue have on libraries ILL operations. Findings predicts that most be slow divest themselves monographs a large scale; build new offsite storage facilities but put more thought into their contents; increased discoverability digitized texts greater copyright restrictions drive users print; librarians make gray areas law work for them instead against them; publishers, librarians, authors, lawyers, scholars find responsible fair solution provid...