ILL as Acquisitions: Implementing and Integrating POD in a Research Library

This paper describes Virginia Tech's implementation of a purchase-on-demand ( POD) program designed to complement the traditional interlibrary loan workflow. POD can offer a way to obtain otherwise unavailable or unlendable content or to get many items at lower cost than a typical borrowing transaction. POD also offers another means of building the collection through purchases of materials we know will get at least one use. We share key details of our program from pilot phase to its broader integration into the acquisitions workflow.