News & Events
A varied programme of events is available to NWLIP partner organisations:
NWLIP Inter Library Loan Meeting
10:30 am, Tuesday 14th May 2013.
Novotel Manchester Centre, 21 Dickinson Street, Manchester. M1 4LX
Our Inter Library Loan meeting will include a DX Transport Update presented by Charles Bedson, who will explain their new pricing structure and changes to the DX service to libraries. Non DX customers will also have the chance to share details of their own ILL transport arrangements. David Clayforth will take British Library queries, and there will also be the opportunity to share news and developments at your library.
Over lunch, which will be provided, there will be time for discussion with our speakers, and time to network with your colleagues from the NWLIP community.
Bookings and agenda items to NWLIP@Lancashire.gov.uk by Thursday 2nd May please.
Free to NWLIP organisations.
NWLIP UnityUk User Group Meeting
1:45 pm, Tuesday 14th May 2013.
Novotel Manchester Centre, 21 Dickinson Street, Manchester. M1 4LX
The UnityUK User Group will be presented by Annie Charlton (OCLC Application Services Consultant) who will give an update on the UnityUK system and answer your questions. If you have a specific query you would like Annie to cover, please include brief details on your reply slip, or email NWLIP@Lancashire.gov.uk. Annie will of course be happy to take questions on the day.
UnityUK User Group meetings are open to NWLIP partner organisations who subscribe to UnityUK, and provide the opportunity for existing members of the UnityUK community to raise queries, to discuss the system, and to suggest potential enhancements or workflow improvements. They are a vital tool in the development of the product.
The meeting agenda is set by NWLIP organisations in partnership with OCLC who provide the UnityUK service and are currently timed prior to or shortly after system upgrades.
Free to NWLIP organisations.
Bookmark Your Library Goes Live
Tuesday 19th March 2013.
Bookmark Your Library www.bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk a new website developed in collaboration with OCLC officially launched to the UK public on Tuesday 19 March.
Over 12 months in development, the initiative seeks to boost visibility and usage of UK public library resources and services by moving them collectively online, and making them accessible via a single digital presence.
Bookmark Your Library is home to FABLibraries, the only UK public library national catalogue, which is based on the holdings of UnityUK subscribers. Users will also be able to use the site to access the Enquire digital reference service and chat online with a librarian to answer questions or support learning, at any time of the day or night.
In 48 hours of launch, traffic to the site went from virtually zero to 1,300 visitors, with 1,100 of those being unique visitors. Many of those visiting the site in this time went on to find their local library location or looked up a book using the FAB service. The average dwell time on the site was four minutes, which compared to industry benchmarks is extremely high for this type of site.
If you have not already done so, why not explore
www.bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk, and use the social media and communication channels in place to provide feedback and suggestions, or simply pledge your pledge support.
NWLIP MonographTransport Reimbursement Rate
Tuesday 01st January 2013.
The NWLIP Monograph Transport Reimbursement rate will be increased from £2.35 to £3.00 with effect from 1st January 2013. This means that those NWLIP libraries that claim transport reimbursement may now claim £3.00 per item supplied, and follows discussion at the NWLIP Inter Library Loan meeting in November and a subsequent vote by NWLIP partners. The UnityUK automated Interlibrary Fee Management (IFM) will be updated to reflect the changes. For clarification:
NWLIP 0 = NIL cost to NWLIP Libraries
NWLIP 1 = NWLIP Transport Reimbursement Rate claimed
NWLIP 2 = Reserve the right to claim NWLIP Monograph Transport Reimbursement Rate from NWLIP 1 partners
See Transport Reimbursement Policies on this website for more details.
Conarls Transport Survey
CONARLS* on behalf of the Combined Regions is conducting a survey on the use of Transport Schemes for interlibrary loans. This survey will inform our work on improving the system as well as making it more cost effective.
Inter Library Loan contacts have been invited to complete a survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CPGZ25P responses are due by 6th November, and will be treated in confidence although the aggregated data will be circulated to some TCR/CONARLS representatives.
Gillian Wilson
Chair of Conarls
Special Collections Manager
Lancashire Library Service
Conarls*, the Working Group of The Combined Regions (TCR) provides a national forum for working on resource sharing issues. Please see The Combined Regions website for information.
The survey has now closed and the results are with the Conarls working group. Thanks go to all who responded.
NWLIP Sponsored Places
You could attend a future inter library loan event for free!
NWLIP are offering sponsored places at appropriate events, including the national Forum For Interlending and Information Delivery (FIL) annual conference and British Library events at the Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa in Yorkshire or the St. Pancras site in London.
Sponsorship usually covers attendance fees and standard return rail travel. This is a great opportunity to attend an event and sometimes includes a chance to see behind the scenes at the British Library sites.
NWLIP sponsored places are open to all staff working in interlending or document delivery in partner organisations, and successful delegates are usually drawn at random from applications. Usually, all we ask from you is an email detailing the reasons why you would like to attend the event.
If you have seen details of an Inter Library Loan event that you would like to attend, email NWLIP@Lancashire.gov.uk to let the NWLIP Team know - we may be able to provide a sponsored place for you.
NWLIP Inter Library Loan Meeting
These regular Inter Library Loan meetings are open to all NWLIP organisations; the agenda is set by NWLIP partners and we encourage and welcome your ideas for speakers and suggestions for meeting and discussion topics. Attendees have the invaluable opportunity to network with our speakers and with colleagues and practitioners from other partner organisations in the public and academic sectors of the North West.
Our most recent Inter Library Loan meeting was held in Manchester on Friday 2nd November, the notes will be available on this website shortly.
Free to NWLIP organisations.
NWLIP Site Visits
Site Visit Reminder.
NWLIP site visits are available to partner libraries and can be particularly useful if you have members of staff new to interlending, or if you just feel it would be useful to talk through Inter Library Loan processes and procedures in your own work setting. If you feel you would benefit from advice or support about ILL resources, tracing library locations, best practice etc., please contact the
NWLIP Team.
