Feasibility Assessment of Creating an Intra-Library Loan System and Document Delivery Services In Public Libraries of Fars Province

High costs related to the preparation of resources, manpower shortages, lack of space, and an inability in information resources have inevitably enforced information needs for their users through resource sharing, ILL library, database intelligence, politics, and political resources instead of using "resource property”. This study is an applied and descriptive study. The tool for gathering data is a questionnaire distributed to 254 public library managers and librarians in Fars Province. Data analysis was performed with statistical software SPSS (version 16), using descriptive statistics and the Friedman test. Based on our findings, 69.94 percent of librarians,and 95.9 percent of managers emphasized on the need to implement an inter-library loan system. Activity of libraries in Fars province in field of ILL and document delivery services was very low (5.73 percent). Research subjects indicated that the limitations and potential problems in implementation included: no guarantee that prevents damage to resources (97.3 percent), lack of consistent rules using Library Services ILL (95 percent), lack of funding for cooperation among libraries (92/1 percent), lack of cooperation between public libraries in ILL library (91.3 percent), the high cost of cooperation among libraries, non-credit provision for main organization (89.4 percent), lack of equipment such as computers, scanners, copiers, and faxes (89 percent), lack of librarians familiarity with network technology and databases (83.9 percent), lack of trust among professionals in the field of librarianship and library document delivery services (80 percent), and lack of coordination between the center and the library system for implementation (80 percent). [Ali Biranvand, Hadi Sharif Moghaddam. Feasibility Assessment of Creating an Inter-Library Loan System and Document Delivery Services in Public Libraries of Fars Province (Iran). Rep Opinion 2015;7(3):64-71]. (ISSN: 1553-9873). http://www.sciencepub.net/report. 9