WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan provides functionality that speeds fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests to save time for your staff and users.
- Get started
- Get started with WorldShare Interlibrary Loan.
- Borrowing Requests
- Create, manage and process borrowing requests.
- Lending Requests
- Manage and respond to lending requests.
- OCLC Service Configuration - WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
- Administrative settings for WorldShare Interlibrary Loan are maintained in OCLC Service Configuration. In Service Configuration, you can set your interlibrary loan options, print settings, borrower and lender constant data, custom holdings groups, automations, and purchase options.
- Policies Directory guide
- The OCLC Policies Directory is the repository of lending and copying policies of libraries participating in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and Tipasa.
- Smart fulfillment
- Find information about Smart fulfillment features, which increase the speed of delivery of materials based on policy data, lending history, licensing agreements, format preferences, and more.
- Article Exchange
- Article Exchange provides a single secure location where lending libraries can place requested articles for interlibrary loan. It allows users to upload files for pickup anywhere in the world. Only authorized users will be able to download the file.
- Document suppliers
- The documentation in this section explains how to receive articles from document suppliers such as the British Library, Get It Now, and MyBib.
- Interlibrary Loan Fee Management
- The Interlibrary Loan Fee Management (IFM) feature lets libraries reconcile resource-sharing charges and payments through their monthly OCLC invoice. IFM helps libraries save money on fee-based transactions and simplify the transaction process.
- Purchasing Requests
- The Purchase option allows you to track items you may wish to purchase, instead of borrowing via interlibrary loan.
- Off-System Requesting
- Learn how to track all requests using off-system request workflows in WorldShare Interlibrary Loan.
- With WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, you can print individual requests, all requests in a queue, add requests to the print queue to print out later, and queue book straps and shipping and return labels to be printed.
- Reports
- Reports are available to WorldShare ILL users through OCLC Usage Statistics.
- WorldShare Circulation Integration
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan and WorldShare Circulation integration provides you with a method to streamline the interlibrary loan-circulation process and workflow. Librarians and staff who process ILL loans will no longer have to update WorldShare Circulation manually to create temporary items and patron holds, charge patron ILL fees, checkout items that your library is lending, or checkin items at the end of the loan period.
- Reference
- Additional resources for WorldShare ILL users.
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan release notes and known issues
- Find WorldShare Interlibrary Loan release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- WorldShare Interlibrary Loan training
- Find training on WorldShare Interlibrary Loan here.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- After logging into WorldShare ILL, I do not see anything on the page
- Alma/Rapido WorldShare integration 400 error
- An article is listed as supplied from article exchange, but we have not received the article.
- An ILL book I loaned came back damaged. What are the rules on damaged or lost books?
- Article is stuck in transit from article exchange, why is this happening?
- OCLC Community Center
- Find more information the Community Center.