15es Confrence IFLA ILDS

1. International cooperation:
an Italian – French experience for
resource sharing
The 15th IFLA International Interlending and Document
Supply Conference
No Library Left Behind: Cross-Border Resource Sharing
Paris, 04 - 06 October 2017

2. Italian background
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Number of libraries of all types per region: total 13,693

3. National Library Service (SBN)
Ø cooperation between state, local and
university authorities
Ø shared cataloguing and standard
ISO-ILL interoperability
to guarantee both national and local
services
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4. Catalogs and services interoperability
ILL-SBN interoperates with
Italian and foreign ISO-ILL
compliant ILS
SBN OPAC interoperates with
Italian and foreign catalogs Z39.50
compliant
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5. SBN in numbers
The SBN network
Ø Over than 6.100
Libraries of all types
(state, local, university)
Ø 99 local hubs
The SBN OPAC
Ø 16.531.632
bibliographic records
Ø 86.949.480 holdings
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6. What is ILL-SBN?
Ø free web based
service for
interlibrary loan and
document delivery
Ø available to all
interested libraries:
single libraries,
system hubs,
centralized loan
services, Italian and
foreign libraries
http://prestito.iccu.sbn.it/ILLWeb/servlets/
ILL
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7. What is ILL-SBN?
Ø integrated with the OPAC SBN
catalog
Ø able to integrate with other catalogs
Ø able to interoperate with lending
systems and ILS that use ISO-ILL
compliant systems
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8. ISO-ILL interoperability between ILL-SBN partner libraries
and the Bibliothèque Universitaire et Nationale de
Strasbourg
Our use case aims to highlight:
Ø simple use of integrated service
Ø easy communication between partner
libraries
Ø monitoring of all information steps
Ø immediate updating of various management
environments
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9. Use of the integrated system - Interlibray Loan
Ò Bibliothèque nationale et
universitaire de
Strasbourg (BNU) as
requesting library
Ò Biblioteca nazionale di
Roma as supplying
library
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10. Bibliothèque Universitaire et Nationale de Strasbourg - BNU -
as requesting library (using Sebina next integrated software)
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BNU sends the
ILL request

11. Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma - BVE - as
Supplying library (using ILL-SBN web interface)
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BVE receives the
ILL request

12. Requesting library (BNU): the status of ILL request is
shipped - Next status is: received
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BVE shipped the
document
BNU will reply:
document received

13. Supplying library (BVE): tracking of the ILL request
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BVE monitors all
the request's iter

14. Use of the integrated system – Interlibray Loan
Ò Bibliothèque
nationale et
universitaire de
Strasbourg (BNU) as
requesting library
Ò Biblioteca generale
dell’Università di
Trieste as supplying
library.
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15. Search the SBN catalogue to find a document and submit
an ILL request
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16. Choice of the supplying library
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E
choice of Trieste
as supplying
library

17. ILL-SBN creates an interlibrary loan request automatically including the
bibliographic and location data from the selected record and redirects ILL
request both to the requesting library and to the supplying library
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18. The management systems of the two partner libraries update
automatically.
BNU – requesting library
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E
ILL SBN redirects
the ILL request to
BNU (requesting
library)

19. The management systems of the two partner libraries update
automatically.
Biblioteca generale di Trieste: supplying library
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E
ILL SBN redirects
the ILL request to
Trieste (supplying
library)

20. ILL SBN acts as a bridge
Ø in this case, the request, is automatically
transferred to ILL SBN from SBN OPAC
Ø ILL SBN acts as a bridge between the
management softwares of the two ILL SBN
partner libraries
Ø the libraries handle requests using their own
software
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21. Use of the integrated system – Document Delivery
Ø Biblioteca di scienze
letterarie e filologiche
dell’Università di Torino
as requesting library
Ø Bibliothèque nationale
et universitaire de
Strasbourg (BNU) as
supplying library
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22. Requesting library: Biblioteca di scienze letterarie e filologiche dell’Università
di Torino (Sebina OL integrated software)
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Torino sends the
DD request

23. Supplying library: Bibliothèque Nationale Universitaire de
Strasbourg (using Sebina Next integrated software)
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E
BNU sends a copy of
the requested
document

24. BNU supplying library: tracking the DD request
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25. Benefits of integrated system
Ø Searching the SBN union catalog, locate
and simply apply for a document in the
same way for all ILL-SBN libraries
Ø Avoiding double work in processing ILL
requests with ILL-SBN libraries
Ø Tracking the entire ILL transaction
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26. Benefits of integrated system
Ø Faster processing of ILL requests
Ø Handling more requests in integrated
mode, thus ensuring comprehensive
statistics
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27. Benefits of integrated system
Ø ISO ILL interoperability greatly reduces some of
the librarians’ tasks
Ø requests and ILL transactions can be managed on
the same system
Ø currently, ILL transactions between BNU and
Italian libraries are only handled via e-mail and, as
a result, there’s no way to check ILL service, nor to
provide accurate statistics about international
services
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28. Which is your management system?
Libraries use many different ILS
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29. What kind of institution does your Library belong to?
44% University Libraries
39% City/local Libraries
8% State Libraries
Libraries belong to
many different
institutions
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30. Do you provide International ILL/DD service?
A majority of Libraries offers
International ILL/DD service (79,5%)
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31. Do you believe a better interaction between
online catalogs and Library services might
improve and simplify ILL/DD service to both
users and librarians?
• 81% strongly agrees
• 17% agrees
• 1,5% slightly agrees
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32. Towards a wider cooperation
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ILL SBN
libraries
Sebina
Other
ILS
Aleph
Alma
ILL-SBN allows to extend the cooperation to libraries that
use different applications and communication protocols
according to technical specifications of interoperability
TCP-IP
• 640 Italian libraries currently belong to the ILL-SBN service.
• 253 Sebina libraries are integrated via http
• 64 Aleph and Alma libraries are integrated with IPIG
• the remaining libraries are working on the web interface

33. The use of ISIL standard code allows to
overcome different library identifiers
employed in various ILL systems, resulting
in smooth communication in both
national and international ILL transactions
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Towards a wider cooperation

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Towards a wider cooperation
IDEM
IDEntity Management for Federation Access
ILL-SBN will soon be a service provided within the
IDEM federation interconnected with the EDUGAIN
interfederation

35. Towards a wider cooperation
Ø integration can be effectively extended to foreign
libraries
Ø standard interoperability eliminates language
barriers and software differences
Ø there is the need of best practices and policies
agreements among partner libraries
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36. Towards a wider cooperation
Our collaborative experience outlines an effective option to
cooperate between Italian and foreign libraries, and
suggests:
Ø mutual effort and commitment of libraries to
progressively integrate services, data and identity
management in the web
Ø as the first step towards sharing common rules and
policies and the achievement of that ideal objective
defined by IFLA
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37. Towards a wider cooperation
the idea of the global library, a networked
resource sharing mechanism that enables
access to resources through the
collaboration of libraries worldwide
IFLA Document delivery and Resource Sharing Section; Action Plan 2016. 1. Mission
statement
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39. • Antonella Cossu - antonella.cossu@beniculturali.it
ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le
informazioni bibliografiche http://www.iccu.sbn.it
• Pascal Godard – pascal.godard@bnu.fr
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg
• Antonella Orviati – orviatia@units.it
Università degli studi di Trieste – Biblioteca generale- Prestito Interbibliotecario
centralizzato
• Ornella Salvioni - ornella.salvioni@unito.it
Università degli studi di Torino – Biblioteca di scienze letterarie e filologiche
• Serena Sangiorgi – serena.sangiorgi@unipr.it
Università degli studi di Parma – Biblioteca politecnica – ingegneria e
architettura
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