The Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery plays an active part in the national scene for Interlending and document delivery. FIL brings together staff working in a wide range of libraries and represents a broad cross-section of views.

Membership of FIL is open to anyone involved in ILL and document supply.

The Forum's activities include regional one-day events, exchange of experience workshops, a regular newsletter and publications on matters relating to document supply and interlending.

Previous FIL events:

"Meeting the Challenge – Co-operation and Collaboration

Interlend 2010 Conference, held from 28th -  30th June at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel. Further information including speaker profiles and presentations are on the FIL web-site.

“All Change Please. Contemporary issues in Document Supply:

What you need to know!” 

This FIL/LIEM 'exchange of experience' workshop was held at the David Wilson Library, University of Leicester on Thursday 8th January 2009. Over forty interlending practitioners from the East Midlands - and further afield - were welcomed by Louise Jones, Director of Library Services for the University of Leicester. Rose Goodier (Chair of FIL) introduced the speakers:  

• British Library update - Peter Robinson, from BL Customer Services
• British Geological Survey - Joan Bird
• University of Derby - Tim Peacock

British Library update - Presentation by Peter Robinson      

"ills@derby.ac.uk" - Presentation by Tim Peacock     

Tours of the David Wilson library after the lunch break were followed by a choice of participatory workshops: Secure Electronic Delivery, facilitated by Linda Clark from Leicester University; Music performance sets, facilitated by Graham Muncy from the International Association of Music Libraries; International Document supply, facilitated by Rose Goodier of FIL.  A plenary session concluded the day.

A full report of the day's proceedings is included in the FIL newsletter for February 2009, Issue 52 (ISSN:0966-2154).

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