New Zealand Interloan Scheme Charter

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Interloan is a national resource-sharing co-operative for libraries to share their collection resources in order to enhance access to information for the benefit of their own customers/clients, and the people of New Zealand. It is based on values of customer focus, access, fairness, co-operation and sharing.

1. Charter Conditions

a. As Supplier:

1. add and maintain accurate holdings statements on the National Union Catalogue (as represented by Te Puna)
2. supply/lend collection materials wherever possible
3. comply with s.50-56 and all other relevant sections of the Copyright Act 1994
4. dispatch the majority of requested items within 72 hours (3 working days) or, if this is not possible, respond to the requesting library within 48 hours (2 working days) of receipt of a request

b. As Requester:

1. take due care and responsibility for all items borrowed
2. return or renew items by the due date
3. pay all charges levied by the supplying library in the form and timeframe required by the supplying library
4. pay IBS invoices by direct debit.  Libraries which agree to this Charter, pay the annual registration fee and continue to comply with the Charter shall be members of the Interloan Scheme (jointly administered by the National Library of New Zealand and the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) for the purposes of the Copyright Act 1994 and the Copyright (General Matters) Amendment Regulation 1995 and 1998.
   

2. Monitoring

1. There will be annual verification that holdings are being reported. Non-compliance may result in cancellation of a Library's Charter
2. Information on average turnaround times for each Charter Library that uses the Te Puna Interloan module will be produced annually
3. Libraries which fail to institute and maintain a direct debit facility pay IBS invoices  will be prevented from using IBS.

3. Guidelines for Requesting

1. Requesters are encouraged to use standards-compliant electronic request systems (ISO 10160: 1997; ISO 10161-1: 1997 and ISO 10161-2: 1997) e.g. Te Puna Interloan, wherever possible
2. Supplying Libraries may either:
   1. accept manual and non-compliant electronic requests and proceed as usual; or
   2. accept manual or non-compliant electronic requests but negotiate a price differential for them; or
   3. refuse to accept manual or non-compliant electronic requests
3. Requesters are expected to provide sufficient, accurate bibliographic details for all requests wherever possible.
   Supplying Libraries may either:
   1. accept incomplete requests and proceed as usual; or
   2. negotiate a higher charge for any extra bibliographic work required; or
   3. reserve the right to give incomplete requests low priority, or
   4. refuse to accept requests with incomplete bibliographic details and return them to the requester
4. Supplying libraries may refuse to supply items to libraries which fail to make payments on time.

Agreed on behalf of ______________________________ Library

Signed: _________________________________ Library Manager

Print ____________________________________ Library Manager

____________________________________ Library Address

Date: _______________________

Financial Institutional Member of LIANZA - No Fee
Financial Institutional Subsidiary Member - No Fee
Non-Member of LIANZA - $150.00 + GST
Please send an invoice to me for this payment

Return to: LIANZA
PO Box 12-212
WELLINGTON

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