Interlibrary loan and library heirarchy

Posted by Elbiot on Sep 29, 2010; 4:01am
URL: http://ngl.70.s1.nabble.com/Interlibrary-loan-and-library-heirarchy-tp5582178.html

Hello!

We are starting a small library and are thinking of using NGL as our ILS.  One unusual thing about our library is that the books are all on loan to the library from individuals.  A lender checks a book in for library use and then some months later the book is due back to the lender (then the lease can be extended or the book returned).

Ideally, Lenders and borrowers would be treated similarly.  For instance, one can find all of the books on loan from one individual, process lease expiration with an automatic email like over due books from borrowers, and create new lenders arbitrarily with just a name, phone # and email address.


I was thinking that, since this thinking is not used in libraries, that we would need to accomplish this through either fancy use of Interlibrary loan functions or perhaps the library network concept of NGL.  But I cannot find documentation on either of these (is there even ILL?)

Could those familiar with NGL recomend or discourage the use of NGL for this project?