Documents Archive

FIL Interlend conferences

• Report from Interlend 2011
  Izzy Hoskins (Document Supply Assistant, David Wilson Library, University of Leicester) attended the Interlend 2011 conference in Durham, on behalf of the Forum for Interlending in June 2011 as our sponsored delegate.
• Proceedings of FIL annual conferences

ILDS Conferences

• Report from the 11th Interlending and Document Supply Conference Hannover, Germany, October 2009 Paula Luckett (Oxford Brookes University) attended the 11th Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) Conference in Hannover, Germany, on behalf of the Forum for Interlending in October 2009 as our sponsored delegate.

Other

• Electronic Material and Inter Library Loans 
  December 2010
  Survey carried out by FIL Executive Committee and The Combined Regions (TCR) Conarls Working Group to help encourage the supply of electronic format material as inter library loan requests
• UK & Eire These Access Policies (PDF file, 255KB)
  Information on the lending and copying of paper theses by higher education institutions in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire.  The information captured has been extended to also cover the provision of theses through Open Access repositories as well as their availability through EThOS, the UK national thesis service.  At the end of the document are some links to other Open Access sources of theses from around the world.
  Compiled on behalf of FIL by Chris Beevers, University of Huddersfield. Version 9, October 2012
• FIL statement on ILL policy at London University
  17 February 1999
• The FIL Survey on the Use of Public Libraries for Inter-library Loans by Students in Higher Education, FIL.1998.
  Prowse, Stephen.
  Use of Public Libraries for Inter-library Loans by Students (PDF, 33 pages, 134 KB)
• FIL statement on restricted ILL services
  This letter was published in the December 1996 (Vol 98(12)) Library Association Record setting out FIL's position on the implications of restrictions on document supply caused by budgetary cutbacks in higher education.