From: "Stuhr, Rebecca A" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:56:44 +0000 To speak up for ILL. Our ILL service at the University of Pennsylvania can deliver articles within a couple of hours of the request. It is easy to make the request—continuous with the search process—and an excellent service. Rebecca Rebecca Stuhr Assistant Director for Liaison Services Penn Libraries 215-898-5999 From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:06:10 -0500 How many students actually need a whole book to do an assignment? It's likely a chapter or two would suffice. If chapters in all books were given DOIs, then a service like Get It Now could readily fill this need, as it does for journal articles now, at much less cost and with much greater speed and efficiency than ILL. Sandy Thatcher From: Tony Sanfilippo <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 07:14:42 -0400 I had a discussion recently with a colleague working for a major regional library consortium and we were thinking about alternatives to ILL that might have a lower cost. I pointed out to her that two major players in POD had very large plants in our state, and that perhaps an alternative to ILL could involve printing and drop shipping direct to the patron, perhaps even direct to their home or campus office. The ILL editions could be discouraged from returning to the marketplace (as an incentive for publishers to participate) by creating blank template paperback covers that would be completed by metadata, and rather than using the four color design used on the commercial edition of the paperback, the POD vendor would print a simple black and white cover, with the title and author on the cover and the spine, the name of the library that triggered the purchase on the front or back, the call number on the spine, barcode on the back, and anything else a library might want to potentially return the print book to the collection after the patron is finished with it. It's kind of a pie in the sky -maybe a print version of DDA- but there are POD vendors with print files for millions of books on their POD servers, it would seem you'd only need to connect a few more dots to get that platform to start efficiently serving our ILL audiences. Maybe we could call it ILL Prime. Of course, this wouldn't exactly help with the mailroom crisis. Best, Tony Sanfilippo Tony Sanfilippo, Director Ohio State University Press 180 Pressey Hall 1070 Carmack Road Columbus, OH 43210-1002 ohiostatepress.org