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 |
|
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
|
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)
Oct 10, 2017 | Presentations
Keynote Karen Blakeman: The future of search: technology, politics and humansRoxanne Grimmett: Workflows without barriers
Jo Cox: BL update
Ed Davidson: OCLC’s new ILL management system ‘Tipasa’ and UK ILL
Ben Watson & Matthias Werner: Accessibility and the opportunities for document delivery
Alison Dyer: Thinking outside of the box when sourcing documents
Eva Dann: Interlibrary Loans at Royal Holloway: Removing barriers
James Bennett: An update on the CLA’s document delivery and library services
James Shaw: The Bodleian Libraries: developing an online inter-loan request form
Katherine Hughes: Beyond ILL: meeting students’ needs with a purchase-on-demand project at York St John University
FIL committee: Workshop
Nov 26, 2016 | Presentations
Talk 1: Copyright
Kate Vasili
Copyright Officer
Middlesex University
Talk 2: Inter Library Loans (ILL) at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) – using the Koha Open source LMS and the British Library API for unmediated ILL requests.
Sarah Halliday
Information Collections Consultant
Talk 3: British Library – part 1 part 2
Sam Tillett/Richard Ebdon
Head of Business Development/Business Development Manager, British Library
Talk 4: Public library eBooks – a different perspective
Andy Holland
Sales Director
Askews and Holts Library Services Ltd.
Jul 12, 2016 | Presentations
Day 1 (27th June)
10.35-11.30 Keynote Simon Bullett: Learn
fast, lean forward: practical deployment of CI thinking, tools and capability
in the Department for Education
Reccomended article: The Lean Library
11.30-12.15 Tricia Rey and David Law: Streamlining document supply across the
NHS in England in 2016: the challenges of implementing a national scheme
12.15-13.00 Graham Titley: “It’s that law
that’s the problem!” : everyday with copyright
14.00-14.45 Kate Ebdon: BL update
The videos for this presentation are too large to upload – please email fil.comittee@gmail.com if you require the full presentation.
14.45-15.30 Beth Parry: Supplying from
Special Collections
16.00 – 16.45 William Nixon: Open access,
institutional repositories and their impact on interlibrary loans
(presentation coming soon…)
Day 2 (28th June)
09.30-10.15 Kate Vasili and James Bennett: Interlibrary
Loan Supply for Higher Education Course Readings: the practitioner’s journey
to EHESS and integration.
10.45 – 11.30 Katie Birch: Using OCLC’s
WorldShare Interlibrary loan in the UK: considerations, best practice and
trends
11.30 – 12.15 Graham Titley: So you think you
know Copyright? : Let’s reassess!
Questions
Answers
13.15-14.00 Claudio Svaluto: Introducing
electronic supply to an academic library inter-library loans department: the case of the Albert Sloman Library
14.00 – 14.45 Chris Thorpe and Nicola Cook: Inheriting
interlending – making sense, connections and developments or Everything you
wanted to know about interlending but were afraid to ask
15.15-16.00 Chris Beevers: PDA fulfilling
ILL (or the other way round?) at the University of Huddersfield
