Interlend 2022: Bringing ILL Communities Together

May 3, 2022 | Events & Conferences, Past Events & Conferences

Summer FIL Conference 2022: Bringing ILL Communities Together

Weds June 29th 2022  Online

10.00 – 16.15

Programme

Time Subject Speaker
10.00 – 10.05 Chair’s welcome Amanda Foster (Northumbria)
10.05 – 10.20 Rapid ILL – workflows Carl Jones (Edinburgh)
10.20 – 10.35 Rapid ILL and Worldshare Alison Dyer (UEA)
10.35 – 11.00 NULJ – National Union List of Journals Stuart Glover (Uni hospitals Leicester)
11.00 – 11.10 Comfort break
11.10 – 11.25 Future events discussion Committee
11.25 – 11.40 NICE TBC
11.40 – 12.10 Alma Resource sharing Amanda Foster
Lee Blyth
Rebecca Turpin (Leeds)
12.10 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 13.20 AGM (members only) Committee
13.20 – 13.40 House of Commons Library  Greg Howard

Annabel Gladstone
13.40 – 13.55 BL update Jo C (BL)
13.55 – 14.10 Comfort break
14.10 – 15.00 ProQuest e-book lending Whitney Murphy
15.00 – 16.00 Article Galaxy for Academic (reprints) TBC
16.00 – 16.15 Awards and Closing Chair

 

Please use our Online Booking Form to secure your place. Click Here

FiL Online February event Weds Feb 9th 2022

Jan 19, 2022 | Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences

**UNFORTUNATELY THE EVENT HAS NOW ENDED.**

Programme

10.30 – 10.35 Chair’s welcome Amanda Foster
10.35 -11.10 “CDL and Interlending: from theory to reality?” Kevin O’Donovan
11.10 -11.35 “Document Delivery at the Drill Hall – 3 Universities with One Shared Library” Claire Baldwin
11.35 – 12.00

 

 “Variety is the Spice of Life. Alternative Formats: My Journey So Far” Masniza Sore

 
British Library Alternative Formats Service Jo Cox
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch  
13.00 – 13.40 “Consortial working: WHELF” Bronwen Blatchford
13.40 – 14.20 Committee led discussion sessions

a) Elsevier repercussions

b) Hybrid working

 FIL committee
14.20 – 14.40 British Library Update Jo Cox
14:40 – 14:50 Chair’s closing comments Amanda Foster

Please use our Online Booking Form to secure your place. You should receive an auto-confirmation of your place, but we will only circulate the link for joining a couple of days in advance of the event.

Interlend 2021 – Do you want to be our sponsored delegate?

May 6, 2021 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences

The Forum for Interlending (FIL) is offering sponsored delegate places at the forthcoming Interlend 2021 conference, to be held online on Wednesday 30 June 2021.

The sponsorship award covers the cost of attendance at the conference.

To be considered, an email application should be sent to the FIL Chair, Claire Hordern claire.hordern@manchester.ac.uk

This should include:
1. Full name
2. Contact details (email, telephone number, address)
3. Note of availability to attend conference if award is granted
4. Brief explanation of why you wish to attend, as well as the value that you and your organisation would gain from attendance at Interlend 2021 (200-300 words)

The Committee especially welcomes applications from new professionals, library students and NHS and public sector library staff.

As a condition of the award, the successful applicant is required to submit a report, evaluation or critical appraisal of the conference by the end of August 2021.  These will be published in a forthcoming issue of the FIL Journal, as well as being used on the Forum’s website with elements being reused in future FIL publicity as deemed appropriate.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 1 June 2021.  The Committee aims to notify the successful and unsuccessful applicants of their decision within 5 working days of the closing date.

The FIL Committee will consider all applications and make the award to the applicant whom they believe would gain the most demonstrable benefit from attendance.

Good luck!​

New for FIL 2021 – National Interlending Awards

May 6, 2021 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences

Help us to celebrate the amazing work which we all do and see within Interlending.

We are looking for nominations in the following categories:

Innovation in Interlending. The last year has thrown many challenges at us. Have you tried someone new and amazing? Invented a new way of working? Let us know.

Interlending – Above and Beyond. Sometimes requests can be more challenging.
We’re looking for individuals or teams who have gone way beyond normal working practice to help an individual or an institution within interlending.

Interlending – Rarest or most Random. Have you tracked down the last copy in existence? Supplied something to an unusual library? We all have stories of the most random requests we’ve filled. Now’s your chance for your story to shine.

Nominations for the above three categories should be for work done within the last 12 months.

Lifetime Achievement. We’re looking to celebrate someone who within their working life has made a difference, year on year within Interlending. Is that you, or someone you know?

Nominations should be submitted to the FIL Chair, Claire Hordern
claire.hordern@manchester.ac.uk by the 1 June 2021.

Nominations should be no more than 300 words, and should clearly name the nominee and category. Individuals or teams may self nominate, or be nominated by colleagues. Winners will be announced on 30 June 2021 at the FIL conference.

Booking for Interlend 2021 is now closed

Apr 23, 2021 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Upcoming Events & Conferences

Interlend 2021: ILL in the ‘New Normal’ will be our 2nd online event for interlending professionals on Wednesday 30th June 2021. Like everyone else, we are looking to the future and considering what ILLs and Interlending may look like in a post-Covid world.

Book your place here.

The event will be hosted on Zoom and our licence does limit numbers; in the event that we are oversubscribed, we will create a waiting list on a first-come first-served basis. Instructions and the link to join the event will be sent to registered attendees nearer the actual day.

Prices:

FIL members – £30

Non-Members: £50

Please do get in touch if you have any questions: fil.comittee@gmail.com.