Table of contents

The History of Interlibrary Loan

Introductions

Basics: What Libraries Do

Basics: Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Premise: What took you so long?

Overview

History: pre-20th C. Europe

History: Turn of the 20th Century

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Milestones: Postal Service

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Milestones: Union Lists, Catalogs

History: pre-WWII US

Milestones: Standard code, forms

History: post-WWII

Milestones: Teletype (TWX)

Milestones: Teletype

History: Late 20th Century

Milestones: MEDLARS

History: Late 20th Century

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Milestones: DOCLINE (NLM)

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History: Turn of 21st Century

Milestones: Ariel and Prospero

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Milestones: ISO ILL Specs (1998)

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Trends: Metadata Matters

Trends: Niches Matter

Trends: Technology Might Matter

Trends: Libraries Cache Content

Trends: Random Fee Structures

Trends: Infrastructure

Trends: Mess is Lore

Trends: There’s a lot of content

Implications for p2p file sharing

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PowerPoint Presentation

Author: Dan Chudnov

E-mail: dchud at mit edu

Homepage: mit.edu/dchud