Viability of interlibrary loan as a background for creating a network of domicile loan in the subsystem of humanities of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico

Abstract

The interlibrary lending in the libraries belonging to the UNAM’s Subsystem of Humanities is analyzed with the aim of establishing domicile lending. Direct observations were made and questionnaires were applied to the responsible of the libraries of the UNAM´s Humanities Subsystem. Most of the interlibrary lending of each library is done between the other libraries belonging to the subsystem. It is possible to eliminate the interlibrary lending and establish a single credential that allows the access to domicile lending of the bibliographic material from the libraries subsystem to each user registered on any of the dependencies of the subsystem. It is recommended that a network is started with at least two libraries, allowing others to incorporate in the future; and that this network is created with the purpose that in the future it will be possible to establish a cooperation that will allow them to share assets and resources.