[Dtb-talk] The end of NLS/LOC international interlibrary load

[Greg Kearney]

In the past the Association for the Blind of Western Australia would
get interlibrary loan books from the National Library Service in the
United States but it looks like that option is no longer available to
international libraries at this time.

It strike me a pity that in the process of adopting an international
standard the NLS/LOC appears to have decided to no longer engage in
international interlibrary loan. So as a result an option once open to
us is now closed.

See the letter we received when we requested a title below:

---Start of enclosed letter----

From: Yealuri Rathan Raj [mailto:raj at loc.gov]
Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 9:33 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Fwd: Interlibrary Loan

Thank you for your request to borrow digital books.  We are not
loaning digital books to foreign libraries at this time.

Thank you

Y. Rathan Raj
Overseas Librarian
National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20542

----- End of enclosed letter ---

-- 
Gregory Kearney
Manager - Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of Western Australia
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