Oct 15, 2025 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences
Booking for our November Interlend 2025 event is now open! This is an in-person event taking place at the British Library, St.Pancras, Friday 14th November 10:30-16:00 (Please note AGM will take place 10:30-11:00 followed by optional tour of the British Library, talks begin at 12:30).
Please book your place here.
Light refreshments with be provided and there are catering options on site and nearby to purchase food – Eat, drink and shop at the British Library
We look forward to seeing you all there!
November at the British Library
Draft Programme
Friday 14th November, British Library St. Pancras
10:30-11:00 AGM – committee members + any interested parties
11:00-12:30 Tours, networking and nibbles – Sign up for an optional tour of the British Library at St Pancras via our booking form, we have tours starting at 11:00, 11:15, 11:30 -please note places are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis:
12:30- 13:15 Dr Andrew Cox & Dr. Suvodeep Mazumdar, School of Information, Journalism and Communication University of Sheffield
13:20-13.40 Copyright, AI and the Library – Kate Vasili, Copyright Officer, Middlesex University
13:40-13:50 Update from British Library
13:50-14:00 Update from the Forum for Interlending
14:00-15:00 Smart fulfilment and AI in resource sharing: transforming modern ILL services – Paul Jansen, Senior Product Analyst, Resource Sharing, OCLC
15:00 -15:25 Rochelle Pretsell & Lara Marshall from RNIB – 5 min Q&A
15:25- 15:55 Ian O’Sullivan from the BFI Reuben Library – 5 min Q&A
16:00 Close
Jun 12, 2025 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences
Join us at Interlend 2025
Booking for Interlend 2025 is now open! This is a free event and will be online, held on Wednesday 25th June 10:00-16:30.
Please join via Zoom link, this will be sent to you following your registration.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Final Programme:
| Session |
Timings |
Length |
Speaker |
| Welcome |
10:00-10:05 |
5 minutes |
Amanda Foster, Content Delivery & Copyright Librarian, Northumbria University, Chair of FIL Committee |
| They Asked For Everything: The Case of the Systematic Review That Swallowed the Library. |
10:05-10:40 |
20 minutes + questions
|
Tom Lennox, Library Services Supervisor, Leeds Beckett University & Liesl Rowe, Senior Digital Library Advisor, Leeds Beckett University |
| Update on WHELF+ |
10:40-11:10 |
20 minutes + questions
|
Bronwen Blatchford, Systems Librarian, Cardiff University |
| Update on current services |
11:10-11:40 |
20 minutes + questions |
Jo Cox, Key Account & Business Support Manager, British Library |
| Copyright and AI: What’s going on, and what can we do about it? |
11:40-12:10 |
20 minutes + questions |
Timothy Riley, Information Advisor (Copyright and Licensing) for University of Aberdeen |
| ALN Charging Project update |
12:10-12:30 |
15 minutes+ questions |
Beth Parry, Customer Services Manager, Leeds University, Chris Beevers, Document Delivery Supervisor, Huddersfield University, & Sarah Hornby, Assistant Librarian in Customer Services, Newcastle University |
| Lunch |
12:30-13:10 |
40 minutes |
|
| FIL Update
|
13:10 -13:20 |
5 minutes + questions |
Amanda Foster & Sarah Hornby |
| Kittiwake Trust Multilingual library |
13:20-13:50 |
20 minutes + questions |
Amina Marix Evans, Founder of the Kittiwake Trust Multilingual Library |
| Rapid ILL & Rapido
|
13:50-14:50 |
50 minutes + questions
|
Stacey Brown, Resource Acquisition & Supply Team Leader, Nottingham Trent University & Mike Ritchins, Director, Product Management, Clarivate |
| Break |
14:50-15:00 |
10 minutes |
|
| UKRR update
|
15:00-15:30 |
20 minutes + questions |
Alison Selina, Operations Manager (Storage, UKRR and Retrieval), British Library |
| Research Solutions
|
15:30-16:30 |
50 minutes + questions |
Gordon Brand, Academic Advanced Account Manager & Tony Landolt, Head of Business Development, Research Solutions
|
Jun 12, 2024 | Events & Conferences, Latest News & Updates, Past Events & Conferences
Interlend 2024 will be online again this year, held on Wednesday 26th June 10:00-16:15 via Zoom.
Please join via the Zoom link, which will be sent to you following your registration. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Please note this is a draft programme and subject to change.
| Session |
Timings |
Length |
Speaker |
| Welcome |
10:00-10:05 |
5 minutes |
Amanda Foster, Chair of FIL Committee |
| Introduction to ILL |
10:05-10:40 |
35 minutes + questions
|
Helen Hall, Liverpool University & Sarah Hornby Newcastle University |
| Report from collective licensing session workshop |
10:40-11:25 |
40 minutes + questions
|
Amanda Foster, Chair of FIL Committee, Kate Parson, National Library of Sweden & Susan Mair, Copyright Advisor at Northumbria University |
| New CLA license and what it means for interlending |
11:25- 11:45 |
15 minutes + questions
|
Kate Vasili, Copyright Librarian, Middlesex University |
| ILL Benchmarking |
11:45-12:30 |
40 minutes + questions |
Beth Parry (Leeds University), Chris Beevers (University of Huddersfield) and Kenny Whyte (University of York). |
| Break |
12:30-13:00 |
30 minutes |
|
| EX Libris on Rapido from the perspective of Cardiff with Bronwen Blatchford |
13:00 -14:05 |
60 minutes + questions |
Bronwen Blatchford, Systems Librarian at Cardiff University & Judith Fraenkel, Director of Product Management & DEI Strategy |
| EBSCO OpenRS |
14:05-14:50 |
40 minutes + questions |
Mark Allcock, Director, Product Management, EBSCO |
| Break |
14:50-15:00 |
10 minutes |
|
| Update on Reprints platform |
15:00-15:25 |
20 minutes + questions |
Tony Landolt, Reprints- Head of business development & Gordon Brand |
| Lightening talk: RapidILL Working Group |
15:25-15:40 |
10 minutes + questions |
Kip Darling, IGeLU RapidILL Working Group |
| Update from BL
|
15:40-15:55 |
10 minutes + questions
|
Jo Cox, British Library
|
| Round-up and close |
15:55-16:05 |
10 minutes |
Amanda Foster, Chair of FIL Committee |
Mar 19, 2018 | Past Events & Conferences
Programme for Interlend 2018*
Day 1: 25th June
09.00-10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00-10.05 Welcome and housekeeping
10.05-11.00 Keynote: Ayub Khan (CILIP President) – Rethinking the Library
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.15 Michael Webb & Abimbola Alayo (Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust) – BaseDoc: a tool for managing inter-library loan requests
12.15-13.00 Alan Dawson (Bangor University), Marie Lancaster (Cardiff Metropolitan University) & Gareth Owen (WHELF) – WHELF Consortium ‘Reciprocal Borrowing Partnership’ – Sharing is Caring.
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Shirley Cousins, Copac Service Manager, Jisc and Bethan Ruddock, National Bibliographic Knowledgebase project manager, Jisc – The Jisc National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK) and interlending
14.45-15.30 Saskia van Elburg & Nicola Tricker – Plymouth University Library 2018 inter library loan review and BL ILL API implementation – method and outcomes
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00 – 16.45 Natalie Guest (Reading University) – Reviewing and shaping interlending’s place within your organisation
16.45–17.00 Day 1 round up
19.30-20.00 Pre-dinner drinks reception
20.00 – Conference dinner
*Programme subject to change
Day 2: 26th June*
09.00-09.30 AGM
09.30-10.30 Keynote: Donna Lanclos (Associate Professor for Anthropological Research) -www.donnalanclos.com
10.30-11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 12:30 Andy Priestner – Lego Serious Play (Group A) 11:00 – 11:45 Rebecca Turpin & Sophie Lindley – International Interlending at the University of Leeds Library 11:45 – 12:30 Amanda Foster & Lee Blyth – From Interlending to On Demand: the journey to digital transformation at Northumbria University Library (Group B)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15:00 Andy Priestner – Lego Serious Play (Group B) 13:30 – 14:15 Rebecca Turpin & Sophie Lindley – International Interlending at the University of Leeds Library 14:15 – 15:00 Amanda Foster & Lee Blyth – From Interlending to On Demand: the journey to digital transformation at Northumbria University Library (Group A)
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.15 British Library Update
16.15-16.30 Conference round-up and close
*Programme subject to change
Mar 22, 2017 | Past Events & Conferences
Programme for Interlend 2017*
Booking form available here
Day 1: 26th June
09.00-10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00-10.05 Sandra DeRoy: Welcome and housekeeping
10.05-11.00 Keynote Karen Blakeman: The future of
search: technology, politics and humans
11.00-11.30 Refreshments
11.30-12.15 Roxanne Grimmett: Workflows without barriers
12.15-13.00 Jo Cox: BL update
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Ed Davidson: OCLC’s new ILL management system ‘Tipasa’ and UK ILL
14.45-15.30 Ben Watson & Matthias Werner: Accessibility and the opportunities for document delivery
15.30-16.00 Refreshments
16.00 – 16.45 Alison Dyer: Thinking outside of the box when sourcing documents. Workshop.
16.45–17.00 Day 1 round up
19.30-20.00 Pre-dinner drinks reception
20.00 – Conference dinner
*Programme subject to change
Day 2: 27th June*
09.00-09.30 AGM
09.30-10.30 Keynote Andy Priestner: Stop listening to your users: the case for UX research
10.30-11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 11.45 Eva Dann: Interlibrary Loans at Royal Holloway: Removing barriers
11.45 – 12.30
James Bennett: An update on the CLA’s document delivery and library services
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 -14.15 James Shaw: The Bodleian Libraries: developing an online inter-loan request form
14.15 – 15.00 Katherine Hughes: Beyond ILL: meeting students’ needs with a purchase-on-demand project at York St John University
15.00-15.30 Refreshments
15.30-16.15 FIL committee: Workshop TBC
16.15-16.30 Conference round-up and close
*Programme subject to change
