The National Library of New Zealand is working with OCLC to improve interlibrary lending and reduce costs by moving the infrastructure of the national Te Puna Interloan network to the hosted version of OCLC's VDX resource sharing system.
OCLC's VDX document delivery and management system fully automates the requesting and supply of books and journal articles for libraries that use the Te Puna Interloan system. The National Library of New Zealand has selected OCLC to host and manage this system, which greatly reduces the organisation's administrative workload and reduces maintenance tasks. The national interlibrary loan infrastructure is now hosted in OCLC's data centre, with local support provided by OCLC staff, in Melbourne, Australia.
Eighty-eight percent of New Zealand libraries use Te Puna Interloan, including small public libraries, large university libraries and a variety of special libraries. The system generates approximately 102,000 requests per year and includes interlibrary loans between libraries in Australia and New Zealand. VDX facilitates Te Puna's interloan payment service, tracking the financial transactions between the supplying and requesting organisations, which enables the National Library to generate invoices. This move positions Te Puna Services and the National Library of New Zealand for additional next-generation technology.
