Inter-Library Loans Community of Practice (CoP)

Co-Chairs

The Co-Chairs for the Inter-Library Loan Community of Practice are Will Grady who is a Collections Services Librarian at Manchester Metropolitan University and Kenny Whyte from the University of York.

We are currently seeking two new Chairs for this Community of Practice, please get in touch if you think this is role you’d like be involved with. 

Remit

To provide an opportunity for Interlibrary Loans practitioners to exchange operational experiences, learn from each other, develop and share best practice, and build a sense of community which facilitates resource sharing within the Academic Libraries North Consortium.  See our Terms of Reference for more information.

History

The Inter-library Loans Community of Practice started life as a semi-official sub-group of the Northern Collaboration Collections Development Special Interest Group. Our inaugural meeting was held at Manchester University on 13th September 2019 with 14 universities represented.  We have continued to meet in person or online, about twice a year even through the pandemic, though for obvious reasons the meeting planned for the 23rd March 2020 had to be cancelled!

Joining a Group

If you are interested in joining one (or more!) of our groups, please check with your line manager first and then get in touch with the Development Managers. We can also let you know whether your institution is already represented on any of the groups.