Kentucky Resource Sharing Program

KDLA supports all types of libraries in the Commonwealth in their missions of providing information to their customers: the citizens. This is accomplished by supporting basic resource sharing programs and partnering and working closely with the Kentucky Virtual Library.

 

Component Services of the KY Resource Sharing Program:


OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing and Lyrasis Group Members

The overwhelming majority of libraries in the Commonwealth are Lyrasis Group Members. This means that they are users of OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing services under the auspices of KDLA. In our role as the Kentucky Group Administrator, we have since 1990 paid all fees associated with OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing activity for all Kentucky Lyrasis Group Members. These fees include such items as all types of Searches; Regular and UL Display Holdings; ILL Request and Request Review; ILL Referral and the Internet Hourly Access and Support Fee.

For more information about this aspect of the Program, contact Charlene Davis at 800.928.7000 ext. 230.

Kentucky OCLC Database

The backbone of any resource sharing program is access to ownership; e.g. holdings information so that libraries will be able to accurately target their ILL requests. Because most libraries in Kentucky are not cataloguing members of OCLC, KDLA has been facilitating the loading of machine readable bibliographic records from integrated library management systems for these non-OCLC cataloguing libraries to the OCLC database since 1990. What this means in fiscal terms is that KDLA has solicited and/or accepted records from libraries then paid OCLC for their analysis and profiling activity and the subsequent per record fee as they have been loaded to the system.

To contribute records or update holdings, contact Charlene Davis at 800.928.7000 ext. 230.

Kentucky Union List of Serials

For over thirty years, the Kentucky Union List of Serials, or KULS, has collected and shared detailed information about holdings of magazines and research journals in Kentucky libraries.

For more information about this project and how to contribute or update holdings information: http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/programs/Pages/KULS.aspx

Resource Sharing Support

Staff at KDLA are available to provide support to all types of libraries in all aspects of interlibrary loan.

  • Questions about ILL lending and borrowing: 800.928.7000 ext. 325
  • Questions ILL lending and borrowing from KDLA's collections: 800.928.7000 ext. 325
  • Questions about OCLC ILL authorization numbers & passwords: 800.928.7000 ext. 230

Resource Sharing Training

For over a decade, KDLA has provided free of charge training related directly and indirectly to resource sharing activities.

Questions about this training: 800.928.7000 ext. 230

 

Information Updated: 9/08/2010