How the West was won: using VDX to redevelop cooperative document delivery services in Western Australia

Abstract

The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) has a long history of successful collaborative ventures. A wellestablished cooperative interlending agreement is one notable venture that has operated successfully for over 20 years. To further enhance this service, WAGUL decided to participate in the national local interlending and document delivery administration system (LIDDAS) project with the objective of implementing an automated system, using the VDX software, to manage document delivery activity. Since 2002, VDX has been used for the transmission of requests and documents between the WAGUL member libraries. The success of this project has largely been the result of the four libraries working together to share expertise and problem-solving. This article discusses the process of working collaboratively across institutions -and its benefits and difficulties -in the context of implementing an automated document delivery system.

Managing document supply: a SAGA come true in Sweden

“…These systems include stand-alone interlibrary loan management systems, local library systems, consortial borrowing software, interlending systems, document delivery systems and software for placing end user requests. Examples of products/projects mentioned in the literature include Agent Resource Sharing (Advanced Technology Libraries, 2006), the BLDSC Automated Request Processing System (Chivers, 2000), Clio (Whitlock and Edwards, 2003), Danbib/bibliotek.dk (Petersen and Lose, 2006), DOCLINE (LaCroix and Mehnert, 2002), DocUTrans (Dekker and Waaijers, 2001), ESTAR (Braid, 2003), ILLiad (Kriz et al, 1998) (Norton and Stover, 2003), IMPALA (Van Borm and Corthouts, 2003), INN-Reach (Chmelir, 2005), IntelliDoc (VanBuskirk, 2003), Kinetica (Missingham, 2006), NILDE (Cecconi et al, 2006), Odyssey (Connell and Janke, 2006), Prospero (Morgen and Hersey, 2003), QuickDoc (Munson and Hill, 2003), RAPID (Smith, 2006;Delaney, 2007), Relais (Cornish, 2000) (Guadagno, 2005), RLG's ILL Manager (Massie, 2000), URSA (Nitecki and Jones, 2004), VDX (Burrows et al, 2004) (Braun et al, 2006;Irwin andReid, 2006), WebZap (Library Technology Reports, 2000), WinCHILL (Glover et al, 2000), a number of open source alternatives (Wan, 2006), and the interlibrary loan modules of various local library systems (Prowse, 2006). For reviews, see Barry (2000), Jackson (2000), Lieberthal (2000), Prowse (2006) and White (2006).…”

Incentives for subcontractors to adopt CO 2 emission reporting and reduction techniques

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“…In addition, firms may not want to use coercion but are more likely to convince their partners in business to share the same goals as the contractor (DeCanio, 1993;Cox et al, 2005). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to find out what incentives can play a role in fostering the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions with subcontractors (see also McKinnon and Woodburn, 1994;Van Veen-Goot and Nijkamp, 1999;Burrows et al, 2004). To this extent, we investigate the incentives that may drive subcontractors to cooperate with the contractor in this respect.…”

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