Kudzu 2008 Holiday Schedule (*.xls format)
Kudzu's ILL procedures
   
  Kudzu's ILL Mailing Address Labels

Lanter Lost/Damaged Shipment Claim Form 

  Lanter Shipping Manifest Form
Kudzu Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Stats

  Lanter On-Time Stats  
Participating Library Contact Information (htm) (xls)

ASERL's Kudzu Program 
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Since January 2001, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries has provided "Kudzu," a system for expedited ILL services at participating member libraries across the region.  Kudzu connects more than 300,000 students and faculty to more than 30 million volumes. Most documents can be delivered to the user within a few days -- and in some cases, a few hours.  

Key to the success of the Kudzu system is the rapid delivery of ILL materials to Kudzu participants.  All Kudzu libraries agree to provide expedited delivery to Kudzu partners.  To facilitate this, ASERL has contracted with Lanter Delivery Service to provide courier services between 12 of the 19 Kudzu participants. (Lanter Delivery participants are marked with an asterisk below).  The other Kudzu libraries provide expedited delivery using various other services.

Kudzu participants have also developed a set of principles that govern the ILL practices for project participants.  Click here to see Kudzu's ILL policies and procedures.

Participating Kudzu Libraries

* indicates use of ASERL's contract courier service for delivery of physical items


Partnership with IDS Project

In Fall 2008, ASERL entered a partnership with the IDS Project based within the SUNY library system in New York State.  IDS libraries have developed a detailed system for tracking ILL turnaround times using a user-centric definition of service.  For the 2008/09 project year, nine Kudzu libraries are participating in a pilot project to gather data on turnaround times between Kudzu sites, with the goal of improving service times as barriers are identified.  For more information on the Kudzu-IDS project, please see kudzu.idsproject.org.  (You will need your library's password to enter this site.)

For additional information about this project, please contact John Burger.


ASERL
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
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Atlanta, Georgia   30309-2955

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