Being a depositary library as the second
national library of the country, the University and National Library of
Debrecen has become one of the biggest lending libraries in domestic ILL due to
its special position. The library has more than 600 partner libraries, that
send their requests in different formats. The number of the requests sent
electronically (via the National Document Supply System (NDSS) or e-mail) has
been growing over the years, in 2002 those came to 72% of all the requests.
With the constantly growing number of the
requests quick processing is possible only with keeping up-to-date, accurate
and easy to handle records. The local ILL records, which handle both the
incoming and the outgoing ILL requests, have been developed by the Informatics
Department of the University and National Library of Debrecen according to the
librarians’ demands. Requesting libraries are being informed about the current
status of their requests. The records are connected with the NDSS, therefore
data input becomes simple. Statistics can also be compiled with the system.