Speaker: Ibrahim Farah, Public Services Librarian, University of Balamand Summary: The speaker presented the RSCVD Project led by IFLA

1. Prepared and presented by:
Ibrahim Farah, University of Balamand
IFLA Document Delivery & Resource Sharing
Standing Committee

2. https://rscvd.org/

3. Mission
• Ensure universal and equal access to information through a
collaborative state-of-the-art interlibrary loan service.
• The initiative aims to fill interlibrary loan requests through a
community of volunteers from around the World, and by using
a high-quality, open, and collaborative service free of charge.

4. About the Service
• Started with the COVID19 Pandemic outbreak
• Initiated by IFLA DDRS Committee
• Volunteers from all over the World
• Free of charge

5. Statistics
• 8560 requests were received (until January 08, 2021)
• 5032 were filled
• 71 in process
• Fill rate: 58.78 % (constantly increasing).

6. Volunteers From the Arab World
• Lebanon: 6 Libraries
• Saudi Arabia: 1 Library
• Qatar: 3 libraries
• Egypt: 1 library

7. Fulfilled Requests by Supplying Countries
Australia 9
Brazil 3
India 26
Italy 89
Lebanon 39
Norway 2
Qatar 246
Spain 880
Switzerland 3
Turkey 1906
UK 640
Unknown 111
USA 1645

8. Fulfilled
Requests
by
Requesting
Countries
Albania 1 Korea 109
Argentina 102 Lebanon 259
Australia 460 Mexico 1
Austria 5 Myanmar 1
Bahamas 9 Norway 59
Brazil 25 Pakistan 24
Canada 347 Peru 1
China 2 Philippines 29
Colombia 44 Portugal 1
Czech Republic 19 Qatar 98
Egypt 1 Russia 1
Finland 55 Saudi Arabia 3
France 3 South Africa 22
Germany 9 Spain 147
Honduras 2 Sweden 1
Hungary 40 Switzerland 1
India 36 Tanzania 1
International 50 Turkey 148
Ireland 226 UK 2489
Italy 469 USA 282
Japan 1 West Indies 2

9. International
Resource
Sharing
Relations

10. Arab Libraries
provide...
Albania 0 Ireland 13
Argentina 3 Italy 16
Australia 28 Korea 5
Austria 0 Lebanon 12
Bahamas 0 Norway 3
Brazil 1 Pakistan 0
Canada 8 Philippines 0
China 0 Qatar 2
Colombia 0 Saudi Arabia 0
Czech Republic 0 Spain 8
Finland 0 South Africa 5
Germany 0 Tanzania 0
Honduras 0 Turkey 2
Hungary 0 UK 144
India 1 USA 11
International 1 West Indies 0

11. Internationally:
• Highest Lender: Turkey
• Highest Borrower: UK
Arab World:
• Highest Lender: Qatar (Qatar National Library)
• Highest Borrower: Lebanon (American University of Beirut,
535 requests)

12. Continuity and Sustainability
• HERMES Project
• ERASMUS+ Fund (200,000 Euros)
• Partners: Italy (CRN Bologna), Turkey (MEF Uni.),
Lebanon (Uni. of Balamand), Spain (Uni. of
Cantabria)
• Associate partnership is open for any library wishing
to collaborate
• Result will be disclosed by the end of February

13. RSCVD Demonstration
For volunteering and collaboration information:
ibrahim.farah@balamand.edu.lb