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Products and Services : Resource Sharing and Delivery

Manage the flow of your materials more effectively when you create, track and share interlibrary loan requests with participating libraries and content providers. OCLC supports the delivery of needed resources to your users at the local, group and global levels.

WorldCat Resource Sharing

Borrow and lend materials with libraries down the road or around the world
WorldCat Resource Sharing provides time-saving, efficient inter-library lending tools that simplify library workflows and connect information seekers to materials in 10,000 libraries in 40 countries.

ILLiad

A single interface for more efficient interlibrary loan
The OCLC ILLiad Resource Sharing Management software (ILLiad) automates routine interlibrary loan functions. You save time by managing all of your library's borrowing, lending and document delivery through a single, Windows-based interface.

WorldCat Navigator

Resource sharing solution for groups
WorldCat Navigator provides seamless resource sharing within your library consortium and beyond. The service manages returnable and nonreturnable items, and integrates with internal circulation systems and the wider OCLC resource sharing network to create a superior discovery-to-delivery tool that saves time for library users and increases efficiency for library staff working in library groups.

Odyssey

Electronic document delivery via an open protocol
The Odyssey software allows sites to send and receive electronic documents to other Odyssey sites, OCLC ILLiad sites, and other vendor's software that supports the Odyssey protocol.

VDX

A resource sharing option for library groups
OCLC's VDX is a document delivery and interlending management system that fully automates the requesting and supply of books and journal articles. It meets the needs of consortia that require greater local control of resource sharing among their members by offering tight integration with disparate local library systems.

A report from OCLC Research

“Greening Interlibrary Loan Practices”

This report details the findings from an OCLC Research-sponsored study of the environmental impact of current interlibrary loan practices, as well as recommended practices for reducing the carbon footprint of resource sharing operations worldwide.