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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 6:15 PM, ... <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > book sharing will probably happen through creative use of inter-library loan > functionality, and so an ILS that has a solid and flexible ILL is necessary. > > We will probably have less than 1,000 books (perhaps a couple thousand if > things really take off) and less than 100 borrowers. Probably about as many > book sharers (ie, partner libraries) as borrowers. I keep going back to this point. What type of "partner libraries" are these? Are they part of a given institution, or consortium? Honestly, I don't think ILL is the right solution, and as others have said on this thread, implementing ILL (or even borrowing) is certainly non-trivial. One possibility would be to have a centralized ILS for all the partner libraries, and to manage each as a location within the ILS. This is the model that many public library networks use, for what it's worth. Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library