In our Reporting meeting today (April 13, 2020), we were discussing requests for counts on ILL activity. We're trying to understand what ILL means, in the broader sense, to different institutions. 

Are we talking about intraconsortial borrowing - one set of institutions that are all using a single FOLIO implementation and lending within it (which seems like it would be covered by internal circulation activity reports), or one FOLIO instance to another using a FOLIO tool that hasn't been developed yet? If the latter, that may need to wait a bit. My understanding is that Consortia SIG is on hold til the end of April, waiting for development of ReShare, to see if it would be preferred to use that tool rather than develop an internal FOLIO tool. If that sounds like a mischaracterization of that situation, please speak up.

Or is ILL exclusively external lending and borrowing via a third-party system (OCLC, etc)? If we're talking about reporting on external interlibrary loan activity, how is that tracked within the ILS now? 

We know some libraries have one or more "ILL borrower" user accounts that they use for checking out items before they send them out to other libraries. They can see how many items were checked out, and when, and what the status of those items are (overdue, lost, etc). In that case, is there

And I'm assuming that some institutions may create brief item records to check a received requested item out to their own patron, to track if that item becomes overdue, lost, etc. If so, how can we identify those brief records as "ILL" items

Please weigh in via email or Slack, and encourage others to do so as well. This is so we can figure out which fields to include in the requested reports, so it gets the data that people need.

Thanks!

Elena