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Through the Looking GLASS: The Path to a Successful Inter-Library Loan Consortium

Lyn NasirFairlie Stanish

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Through the looking GLASS : the path to a successful interlibrary

loans consortium

Presentation by :

Lyn Nasir, Office of the Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment, NSW / Macquarie University

Fairlie Stanish, New South Wales Teachers Federation

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OVERVIEW

• What is GLASS?

• Why a consortium?

• Strategies and obstacles

• Launch

• How GLASS works

• Keys to ongoing success

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WHAT IS GLASS ?

Government Libraries & Social Sciences

GLINN + LOTSS = GLASS

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WHY A CONSORTIUM?

• Rising costs

• Administrative problems

• Efficient resource management

• Collapse of previous arrangements

• GRATISNET model

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STRATEGIES

• Form Steering Committee

• Communication

• Search for website host

• Search for software

• Adaptation of GRATISNET

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OBSTACLES

• Diversity of membership

• Informal existing arrangements

• Time constraints

• Start-up costs

• Fear of excessive demand

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SUCCESS

• Launched August 2000

• Stats & rankings ensure equitable

demand

• Growth with new members

• Web-based and easy to use

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KEY TO ONGOING SUCCESS :

the GLASS Working Group

• Communication

• Equitable workload

• Representative Group membership

• Humour!

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www.glassdd.org

• fairlie@nswtf.org.au

• nasirl@eeo.nsw.gov.au

Prosentient Systems

Edmund Balnaves

ejb@prosentient.com.au