Interlibrary loan

Dansk fjernlån i verdensklasse

                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
   Fjernlån, dvs. lån af fysiske materialer mellem danske biblioteker har                                                                                                                                                                    
   eksisteret i årtier og prises verden over for sin effektivitet og                                                                                                                                                                         
   smidighed.  I det internationale Interlending & Document Supply Volume 39,                                                                                                                                                                
   issue 4, som udkommer sidst i november i år men p.t. er tilgængeligt i                                                                                                                                                                    
   preview                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
   skriver redaktøren Mike McGrath, der har mere end 35 års erfaring indenfor                                                                                                                                                                
   området bl.a.:                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
   ”Perhaps the most important insight into the factors that affect ILL                                                                                                                                                                      
   (fjernlån) is provided by Denmark. As an editor I have tried to promote                                                                                                                                                                   
   the effectiveness of ILL in satisfying the demand for wider reading                                                                                                                                                                       
   material by the general population by publishing articles from Denmark                                                                                                                                                                    
   that describe in detail its successes. In bald terms, a country of 4.5                                                                                                                                                                    
   million people generates two million ILL requests a year! This is                                                                                                                                                                         
   principally because any Danish citizen can order any item in the Danish                                                                                                                                                                   
   national catalogue (bibliotek.dk) from anywhere, to be delivered anywhere                                                                                                                                                                 
   – all free to the citizen.”