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Here's all the information about COVID-19 emergency:

Despite the unexpected limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the objectives of expanding NILDE network and cooperation in international resource sharing are confirmed again for 2020-2022.       

The IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing (DDRS) Standing Committee wishes to inform you about a new initiative that the Committee is launching to facilitate international resource sharing activities during the time of COVID-19.

Here we suggest a selection of information resources not only biomedical and useful links for subscribers only to expand access to online resources during the Covid-19 emergency.

COVID19 biomedical Info

Taking a cue from a similar American initiative, the CBN has prepared a special file, available online in which each library is strongly invited to indicate the current situation of the services provided.

The Internationalization Working Group aims to study and improve resource sharing and international library cooperation procedures extending the participation of libraries in NILDE and promoting NILDE and its philosophy abroad.

The establishment in 2004 of the NILDE Rules and Regulation has truly sped up the growth of NILDE. The Rules are the common framework libraries agree to comply to. Libraries commit to:

In Italy, at the end of the ‘90s, two main national services for the sharing of resources were well established: ACNP, the Italian National Union Catalogue of Periodicals, which at that times included  about 1,500  academic and research libraries which regularly updated their seri