SV: [ILL-L] Question on IFLA vouchers

[Poul Erlandsen]

Andrew,

IFLA Vouchers were initially meant to make payment for ILL services across country borders easier, i.e. to make it possible to avoid bank charges at both end that are often much higher than the amount invoiced. For example if we're invoiced US$10 by a library in the US that doesn't accept IFM or IFLA Vouchers we'll have to buy a cheque in the bank. The charge we pay to the bank for that is around US$25 and I guess that the library receiving the cheque will have to pay approx the same to cash it.

However we're now seeing the Vouchers being used within individual countries as well (Spain and Italy are good examples of that) because there is no efficient payment scheme in the country already so the IFLA Vouchers have filled a local need.

Hope this helps!

Best regards

Poul Erlandsen 

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Fra: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] På vegne af Andrew Shuping
Sendt: 18. december 2007 16:14
Til: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Emne: [ILL-L] Question on IFLA vouchers

Hi all,
I've seen the term IFLA vouchers a number of times and gather that there 
are a way to make payments to other libraries without fussing over 
checks, etc.  My question is this:  We handle about 2000 requests a year 
and see it continuing to increase (we had a 22% increase last year) is 
it worth it for my library to invest in a few?  Any advice would be 
greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
Andrew
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