Interlibrary Loan of Special Collections Materials: An Overview and Case Study

Abstract

When the Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections, in partnership with the Interlibrary Loan department at the University of West Georgia's Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library, embarked on loaning original materials to other libraries, we did so with a lack of consensus from the special collections world at large, about whether lending special collections materials was a good practice or not, what to lend, and to whom to lend.

The only consensus about loaning special collections materials is that there is no consensus, to rephrase the finding of the 2010 OCLC Sharing Special Collections Working Group survey.¹ That survey, along with another . . .