Hi all, We have been thinking about developing Interlibrary loans for Koha. We have a couple of prospective customers that are currently using ILL on their existing systems and a few customers who are likely to be interested. We have not worked out a spec yet or the funding, but have been discussing doing so. Folks here developed the Interlibrary Loans for Unicorn in the UK so we have some experience of developing this and understanding the workflow. That was done with the Unicorn API and without access to the source code, so it can only be easier on Koha. The UK libraries make much use of the British Library Document Supply Service but also often interlend between institutions. Both of these are often required or highly desirable by UK libraries. Is there any more interest out there? All the best. Ian On 10/02/2010 09:15, Magnus Enger wrote:
Hi, Lenora et al!
I am very interested in an ILL module too - having worked as an ILL librarian for several years it's one of the very few things that stand out as "missing" in Koha, in my eyes. I also think that Norwegian librarians are used to having this functionality integrated into their ILS, as opposed to et least some other countries, where I understand that the norm is to deal with this functionality outside of the ILS.
Unfortunately, here in Norway we have our very own ILL standard or protocol, called NILL, which is documented, in Norwegian only, here: http://www.biblev.no/nill/ Basically the protocol consists of a set of XML messages that are passed between systems over e-mail(!).
Now, NILL may or may not be of interest to libraries outside Norway, but I am thinking that at least some functionality will be of common interest, and that there could be a choice of different protocols, or an easy way to adapt the core functionality to different protocols.
I am but a tiny vendor trying to attract my first customers, but I certainly hope to be able to find a library that could be interested enough in Koha to be willing to sponsor some work on ILL and NILL. In the meantime I am more than willing to contribute time and any knowledge on the subject that I may have, in order to help Koha get an ILL module up and running.
Regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no
On 9 February 2010 18:45, Lenora Oftedahl<OFTL@critfc.org> wrote:
I am very interested in an ILL module for Koha. Is anyone working on this module? And my library even has money to contribute.
Lenora
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