CLIC (CAVAL Interlibrary Consortium)
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CLIC comprises a group of six academic libraries using VDX (Virtual Document eXchange) software to manage busy interlibrary loan and document delivery operations that now also include cross campus services and services to external, remote and offshore students.
CLIC was established in 2001 to provide configuration and support to member libraries, to share expertise and to assist libraries in managing a complex automation product. CAVAL provides system management, software configuration, operational support and training to the members of the consortium for their implementation and operation of VDX.
The CLIC VDX system is delivered via a shared hosted system managed and maintained by OCLC. The system consists of a single database with individual institutional views and a separate, institutionally branded web interface for each institution.
Benefits of CLIC Consortium membership
There are multiple benefits of using the CLIC system - apart from the high level of flexibility and functionality of the VDX software itself, membership of the consortium also provides advantages not possible with other ILL systems. A summary of some of the benefits include:
- No necessity to employ an in-house VDX systems specialist
- Increased learning from consortia members' successes and failures
- Cost savings on hardware purchase, installation, and maintenance costs
- Automation (supplier location, authorization process, patron alerting) improves workflow efficiencies
- Copyright management
- Supply management
- Invoicing efficiencies
- Built-in automatic statistics generation
- Loan tracking capability
For more information
- Cathie Jilovsky, Chief Information Officer
- George Panagiotidis, Lead, Digital Services
CLIC Publications
"CLIC @ CLICK06: a consortial success story", by Cathie Jilovsky, Kathryn Pearson and Julie Wilson. Presented at the ALIA 2006 Biennial Conference CLICK06, 2006. (Available from ALIA).
"Changing the face of interlibrary loans: LIDDAS at Macquarie University", by Kathryn Pearson, Macquarie University, Proceedings of the 10th Biennial VALA Conference, Melbourne, 2000. (Available from VALA).
"CIDER: CAVAL Information Delivery and Electronic Requesting" by Anne Beaumont, Joan Tucker and Craige Hicks, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial VALA Conference, Melbourne, 1998. (Available from VALA).