Another reason why it is impossible to sustain an argument that academic journal publishers would be economically disadvantaged by a legislated exception for ILL is that only a very small proportion of academic journal articles that Canadian research libraries purchase are, in fact, used for interlending purposes. These same libraries made a total of 274,518 ILL transactions involving the provision of a surrogate copy of a journal article. Canadian research libraries very strongly support the proposed exceptions for interlibrary loan contained in Bill C-32, which are of great importance to the Canadian research community. The visibility of an overhead projector image is poor in the large lecture halls that are now a feature of undergraduate education. Ariel is a document transmission system which allows the sending library to send an electronic image of the article to the Ariel workstation in the recipient library, where a paper copy is then produced for the patron.
Ariel workstations are always in areas restricted to library staff.
Following a receipt-acknowledgement message, the standard practice of both sending and recipient libraries is to delete the image file through default system configuration. 1 Human Resources Development Canada.