Sep 5, 2025 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences, Presentations
Gathering of Ideas
The Forum for Interlending’s annual conference, Interlend 2025, took place online on Wednesday 25 June 2025. The event brought together speakers on a range of topics including AI and copyright, RapidILL workflows, multilingual library access, and systematic review support.
Slides and recordings from the presentations are now available below for anyone who would like to revisit the sessions or catch up on content they may have missed.
| Presentation |
Speaker |
Slides |
Video |
| They Asked For Everything: The Case of the Systematic Review That Swallowed the Library. |
Tom Lennox, Library Services Supervisor, Leeds Beckett University & Liesl Rowe, Senior Digital Library Advisor, Leeds Beckett University |
Slides |
Video |
| Update on WHELF+ |
Bronwen Blatchford, Systems Librarian, Cardiff University |
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Video 1
Video 2 |
| Update on current services |
Jo Cox, Key Account & Business Support Manager, British Library |
Slides |
Video |
| Copyright and AI: What’s going on, and what can we do about it? |
Timothy Riley, Information Advisor (Copyright and Licensing) for University of Aberdeen |
Slides |
Video |
| ALN Charging Project update |
Beth Parry, Customer Services Manager, Leeds University, Chris Beevers, Document Delivery Supervisor, Huddersfield University, & Sarah Hornby, Assistant Librarian in Customer Services, Newcastle University |
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Video |
| Kittiwake Trust Multilingual library |
Amina Marix Evans, Founder of the Kittiwake Trust Multilingual Library |
Slides |
Video |
| UKRR update
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Alison Selina, Operations Manager (Storage, UKRR and Retrieval), British Library |
Slides |
Video |
Jul 15, 2024 | Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences, Presentations
Below are presentation slides provided by the speakers from Interlend 2024.
Report from Collective Licensing session workshop (Kate Vasili, Copyright Officer, Middlesex University)
New CLA License and what it means for Interlending (Kate Vasili, Copyright Officer, Middlesex University)
ILL Benchmarking (Beth Parry, Leeds University and Chris Beevers, Huddersfield University and Kenny Whyte, University of York)
Rapido (Judith Fraenkel, Ex Libiris)
Ebsco OpenRS (Mark Allcock, EBSCO)
Update on Reprints Platform (Tony Landolt, Reprints)
Lightening Talk: RapidILL Working Group (Kip Darling, IGeLU RapidILL Working Group)
Update from BL (Jo Cox, BL Customer Services)
Mar 11, 2024 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences, Presentations
Below are direct links to a selection of presentation slides from our FIL Online February 2024 event.
British Library session (Richard Ebden, Sam Tillet and Sally Harper British Library Service Update – Click Here.
British Library Results of Survey to Inform Future Collaboration around resource sharing – Click Here.
Future Strategy for Resource Sharing and ILL: the BL response – Click Here.
Newly set up national scheme of regional interlending practices (Jane Proctor). – Click Here.
WHELF+ Update (Bronwen Blatchford, Cardiff University). – Click Here.
Event News: Piloting copyright solutions: sustainable digital access to library stacks abroad” (Kate Parson, National Library of Sweden). – Click Here.
Feb 15, 2023 | Presentations
Presentation Slides
Speakers have made their presentation slides available to FIL members:
Title: ILL at the University of Liège: From Fee
Speakers: François Renaville, Head of Library Systems and Fabienne Prosmans, Fulfilment and ILL Coordinator, University of Liège
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_renaville
Title: Avoiding ILL fees across the EU border
Speaker: Matt Voigts, PhD, IFLA
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_Voigts.pptx
Title: OCLC Update: Exceed your library users’ expectations with fast interlibrary loan
Speaker: Ed Davison, OCLC
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_Davison.pptx
Title: NHS ILL and SWIRLs
Speaker: Stella Scott, Hants Healthcare Library
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_Scott.pptx
Title: BL Update
Speaker: Jo Cox, British Library
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_Cox
Title: Adventures in E-book lending: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation
Speaker: Mark Hoffeditz, Tufts University
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_Hoffeditz.pptx
Title: Licensing and the Interlibrary Lending of Ebooks: Opening Doors at the University of Connecticut Library
Speakers: Michael Rodriguez, Erika McNeil, Stan Huzarewicz, University of Connecticut
Presentation slides: FIL_Feb23_McNeil
Title: ILL and Copyright,
Speaker: Kate Vasili – Middlesex University
Presentation slides
Title: Open Access: changes in publishing
Speaker: Leah Maughan, Northumbria University
Presentation slides
Sep 29, 2022 | Presentations
Rapid ILL Workflows (Carl Jones, Edinburgh University) (Interlend 2022 – U Edinburgh – RapidILL Workflows.pptx)
Rapid ILL and Worldshare (Alison Dyer, University of East Anglia) (RapidILL and OCLC Worldshare – UEA.pptx)
NULJ National Union List of Journals (Stuart Glover, Uni Hospitals, Leicester) (NULJ PPT.pptx)
House of Commons Library (Greg Howard, Annabel Gladstone) (House of Commons.pptx)
Whole Ebook ILL Pilot (Whitney Murphy, Proquest) (Whole Ebook ILL Pilot 2022-06-40.pdf)
Research Solutions – Alternative Literature Supply for Universities (Maria Hatfield, Tony Landolt, Leon Skelton, Research Solutions (Research Solutions Forum for Interlending 6-20-2022)
