Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that users of the Network Inter Library Document Exchange (NILDE) can now seamlessly access documents via the Ex Libris SFX OpenURL link resolver.
Used by over 800 Italian, Spanish, and Greek libraries, NILDE is a document delivery system that allows libraries to request and provide documents to each other. SFX simplifies the process significantly for both the user, who quickly receives access to the desired item, and the library staff, who can easily check where the item is available from, request it from another library and supply it.
NILDE was established in 2001 by The Library of the Area of CNR (Italian National Research Council) in Bologna. NILDE was the name given to software for the service of Document Supply and Inter-Library Loans, around which a community of libraries has formed, who are prepared to share their bibliographic resources in the spirit of reciprocal collaboration. NILDE is therefore both a web-based application for the management of Interlibrary Loan, and a network of libraries within which member libraries can freely request and supply documents for reciprocal exchange.
