On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:15 PM, ... <offonoffoffonoff_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> book sharing will probably happen through creative use of inter-library loan
> functionality, and so an ILS that has a solid and flexible ILL is necessary.
>
> We will probably have less than 1,000 books (perhaps a couple thousand if
> things really take off) and less than 100 borrowers. Probably about as many
> book sharers (ie, partner libraries) as borrowers.
I keep going back to this point. What type of "partner libraries" are
these? Are they part of a given institution, or consortium? Honestly,
I don't think ILL is the right solution, and as others have said on
this thread, implementing ILL (or even borrowing) is certainly
non-trivial.
One possibility would be to have a centralized ILS for all the partner
libraries, and to manage each as a location within the ILS. This is
the model that many public library networks use, for what it's worth.
Mark A. Matienzo
Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library
Received on Fri Oct 01 2010 - 12:31:20 EDT