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The Future is Now!
- 1. Interlibrary Loan The Future is Now! Russell Palmer, LYRASIS
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Editor's Notes
- Thank you all so much—I’m thrilled to be presenting for you today, and I want to think SEFLIN and Charles Mayberry for inviting me to share with you today.
- Speakers at library conferences are often asked to reflect on the future. We are all infinitely curious about what’s out there, what’s next-- especially as new and exciting technologies evolve.  Speakers at library conferences are often asked to reflect on the future. We are all infinitely curious about what’s out there, what’s next-- especially as new and exciting technologies evolve.  Well, I’m about to make a perfectly honest observation with you, and I welcome you disagree with me, and to voice your disagreement in the chat if you feel so moved.  I’ve been in the library world since 1995 (let me grab my cane and false teeth here) and I’ve come to believe that sometimes, as a profession, we do too much sitting and waiting for the “next big thing” when really, we need to spend some time wallowing around in the here and now.  When I arrived on the scene in libraries in the mid 90’s, as a lowly student assistant in the map collection at the University of Georgia, things were moving SO quickly—Georgia had taken up the lottery in 1994, and that money was flowing freely into the university system. GALILEO, Georgia’s virtual library, came online in September of ’95, and it started with a question from the Univ System Chancellor…”so.  How would you spend 20 million dollars?”  That just isn’t happening as often these days… I think now is a particularly good time to wallow. While challenges with technology are still there, the economic downturn we’ve experienced has slowed innovation to some degree, or it has at least hampered our ability to afford the “newest latest” version of things. Â
- I believe we are in an interesting space in library time, and that some of the challenges presented to us at present are more intellectual, not technological. There’s great new technology out there, there are innovations to be made, but let’s see what we can do with existing tools.  So let’s talk about these intellectual challenges (I’ll admit, some of them are related to technology)
- Recently, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to travel around the US presenting the LYRASIS Ideas and Insights Resource Sharing Series. We did events in CT, IN, and PA. During these events, we had a hands on discussion activity where we presented the attendees with three problems:       --I have permission, now what? Lending electronic books and documents    -Managing Copyright and ILL: What works?    --Buy or Borrow? Resource Sharing and collection development connections   We then posed three questions for group work on each topic:  Which tools help the most? What innovations have you made? How might collaboration help?
- Other options include purchase from a document supplier (sometimes that fee is less than fee to lend combined with © fee, and many mentioned the use of the RAPID ILL Platform as a beneficial tool in keeping overall costs of borrowing articles down.