One for All and All for ILL!

One for All and All for ILL!

Here in an academic library the start of term is usually very busy, particularly at the start of the new academic year with lots of new students and staff who need assistance in finding where things are and how they work.

 But, is also a good time to show-case all the services that the library has to offer, including an interlibrary loan service. We know that they probably won’t need us for the first few weeks but hopefully, as the term progresses and they get into the swing of research and essays, they will realise that the ILL team can prove a real asset to them, finding obscure publications or simply getting them the article from a journal to which we don’t subscribe, without having to pay for it themselves. 

This year we have opened up our ILL provision to all categories of users, having previously limited the use of the service to the Post Graduates and Staff of the University and we hope that our undergraduates will now be able to take their research further as ILL can offer them wider scope for their studies. 

My team and I are ready for the new academic year, having put into place some of the ‘leaning’ techniques which I learned about at the conference this year, so any increase in demand should be taken care of! Watch this space!

Sandra (on behalf of FIL)

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