On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 Magnus Enger wrote: Koha is not well known in Norway yet, but awareness of it is slowly starting to grow... One of the features I think Norwegian librarians will be looking for is integrated support for inter-library loan. I have searched the mail-list archives and the wiki for information about whether this is on the horizon for Koha, but have not found anything substantial. This makes me wonder: is ILL not seen as something that should be part of the ILS in other parts of the world? I remember that some time ago a company called Relais International released their ILL software as Open Source - so maybe this means ILL is seen as a stand-alone application, rather than something that should be integrated into the ILS? http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/index.htm Any and all information/views on this is very welcome! Regards, Magnus Enger http://collib.info/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, We too are very concerned with interlibrary loan and its relation to Koha in our regional library consortium in Kansas. We are dealing with this in several ways: 1. Most interlibrary loan is being provided among the participants in our Koha system through a single shared Koha data base. We have found this to be much more efficient than traditional ILL, and is one of the reasons we have pursued a shared rather than standalone ILS system. 2. We have configured our catalog so that whenever an item is not found in our Koha system the following link pops up: *Not finding what you're looking for? *Look for this item in the Kansas Library Catalog <http://ksuc-agent.auto-graphics.com/agent/login.asp?cid=ksuc&lid=ksuc&mode=g> The link takes the user to the standalone statewide ILL system. 3. We would like to eventually have direct links between our Koha system and other library catalogs but that is in the future. We did have discussions with RELAIS but their solution did not seem to meet our needs at this time. Jim -- Jim Minges Director Northeast Kansas Library System 4317 West 6th Street Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: (785) 838-4090 FAX: (785) 838-3989 E-mail: jminges@nekls.org Web site: www.nekls.org