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CHICAGO- Register today for the upcoming four-week web course beginning on November 2, 2020.

As library shelving and physical collections to vanish, electronic resource collections continue to grow. Learn how to expand your Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services to meet the needs of your library patrons. By the end of this course, you will:

• Understand key concepts of ILL infrastructues and operations
• Have starting points for creating and enforcing sound collection development policies, including aquisitions and deaccessions
• Grasp the current issues and opportunities for ILL operations
• Be able to enhance opportunities in this essential library services at your insitution.

This course is designed for MLS candidates, MLS graduates, librarians, library administrators, and paraprofessionals who want to learn more about interlibrary loan systems, whether or not they currently work in an ILL department.

The instructor, Debra Lucas, has been the Head of Reference and Interlibrary Loan at D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY since 2002. She is the author of Marketing the 21st Century Library; the TIme is Now, published by Chandos, an imprint of Elsevier. She has been an online instructor in Library Studies since 2012.

The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) is a division of the 91´«Ã½. RUSA serves all types of libraries in reference, user services, adult readers advisory and collection development as well as resource sharing, genealogy and archives, business reference and reference technology.

RUSA has six specialty sections that are free to RUSA members: (Business Reference and Services Section), (Collection Development and Evaluation Section) (History Section), (Emerging Technologies Section), (Reference Services Section) and (Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section

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