The request was filled by the University of Memphis , in Tennessee, and was shipped Feb. 9. David Fuller, head of Interlibrary Loan at the University of Florida Libraries, entered the milestone request. We just lucked out. Last year, the library filled 25,000 lending requests and 13,000 borrowing requests. The library has received 2,600 borrowing requests in January and 2,400 in February this year.
New technologies continue to make interlibrary loan enjoyable and challenging.
The University of Florida Libraries is made up of eight libraries. The OCLC Interlibrary Loan service came online in 1979. OCLC offers a number of products and services that support ILL, including the OCLC ILL Direct Request service that allows library users to enter ILL requests with little or no staff intervention. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.