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Join us for our online Interlend 2026 Conference.

There’s only two weeks to go until Summer Interlend 2026! FIL is excited to share our agenda for the conference.

Emails with instructions on how to join the event will be sent on Monday 8th June.

You can still register for Summer Interlend 2026 here.

We look forward to seeing you (virtually) there!

Timings Topic & Speaker
10:30-10:40 (10 min) Welcome, housekeeping 

Kip A. Darling, FIL Chair

Your FIL Committee

Joanne Booker, (Bodleian), Roana Mourad (Glasgow Caledonian), Sarah Hornby (Newcastle University), Muriel Munguia (Edinburgh University), with apologies from Alex Priestman (Warwick University) & Jo Cox (British Library)

10:40-11:20 (40 min) British Library High Density Print Storage
Jonathan Meeson (BL)
11:20-11:40 (20 min) BL Update

Richard Ebdon (BL)

11:40-12pm  BREAK – opportunity to network in breakout rooms (20 min)
12pm- 12:20 (20 min) Lightning Talk: ILL Copyright – UK Statutes and Overseas supply

Andrew Johnson (Sheffield University) 

12:20 – 12:40 (20 min) The Barbican Music Library, the IAML UK & IRL Documentation Committee and the Encore Monitoring Group

Charlotte Jones (The Barbican Music Library)

12:40 – 1pm (20 min) Lightning Talk: (Title TBC: ‘the aims of the RLUK ILL subgroup and their wider vision for the future of interlending’) Helen Faulds (University of St Andrews) and Jonathan Chipp (University of Southampton)
1pm-1:45pm LUNCH BREAK (45 min)
1:45- 2:45pm (60 min) ISO Panelists & discussion:

  • Bronwen Blatchford (Cardiff University, on behalf of WHELF+), 
  • Kevin O’Donovan (London School of Economics) 
  • Allen Jones (The New School)
2:45-3:15  (10 min) 

(20 min)

The Google status update sheet/ making use of the FIL website 

Roana Mourad (Glasgow Caledonian), on behalf of FIL Committee

An update on future plans for FIL

Kip A. Darling, FIL Chair

3:15 – 3:35  BREAK – opportunity to network in breakout rooms  (20 min)
3:35-4pm 

(25 mins) 

Building a National Lending Network in Australia
Allen Jones (The New School Libraries, NY, USA)
4pm  Close

Emails with instructions on how to join the event will be sent on Monday 8th June.

You can still register for Summer Interlend 2026 here.

We look forward to seeing you (virtually) there!

Joanne Booker

FIL Web Officer
Joanne has been the Interlibrary Loan and Scan and Deliver Team Leader at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford since 2022.