USING THE INTERNET FOR DOCUMENT DELIVERY

E~clrorUc ~Slnnl, l'lllZiona / and inJrmcuional, haw rt~'owljonistd rradilional iTIJtrlibrtJT') ' loan activilits. vimouJ documenl dt!ii~T') ' OpIi01U awIi/ab1l ' " " W InUmtl will bt described including AritI. The IUt of File Tronsfu Prolocol (FTP) and World Widt ' Web f1.VV{W) It; wealf ' and acct!ss tWa.tmnI1S will also ~ covtnd During the past few decades Inter Library Loan services have cbanged quite dramatical-ly. More or less four decades ago libraries bought high volumes of journals and then delivered the requested anicles from their own stock. They experienced very little financial pressure on their budgets and they were able to subscribe to large numbers of new journals just in case somebody, some-where might need the information in the anicles. They also subscribed to print-format journals only. The result was that users were able to read the document itself and that document deli-very wasn't necessa.ryf6l. So the ~traditional ~ library consisted of rows and rows of shelves packed to full capacity with bound volumes of journals. But things started to change. The available literature increased at an enor-mous rate, monetary problems arose and the end user's information needs and expecta-tions changed. This led to the problem that libraries could supply fewer and fewer of the requested documents from their own collec-tions