> Personally, I think that "interlibrary loan" (or "document delivery",
> or whatever other trendy name you wish) is all a part of "collection
> development" or "resource acquisition" or other new name of your
> choice.

That's how we see it at my institution, which is how I ended up with my
rather weird title and why I ended up overseeing a division that consists of
Acquisitions, Serials and DocDel/ILL.  Most libraries tend to put DocDel/ILL
in the same division as Circulation, but we're looking at it as a way to
acquire materials rather than a way to circulate materials.  Seems to be
working well so far.

(By the way, when I was asked to come up with a new title for myself, with
the proviso that it needed to include the word "Director," my initial
suggestion was "Director of Getting Stuff."  It seemed perfect to me -- it's
clearly descriptive and makes for a _great_ acronym.  My idea was vetoed.)

My initial proposal to replace most ILL with rush acquisition has been well
received by our library dean; when we've worked out the kinks and
established a formal policy I'll send a summary of it to the list.

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Rick Anderson
Director of Resource Acquisition
The University Libraries
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