ISO 10161 is the

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, first published in 1993, that defines the

interlibrary loan Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, document supply, or interlibrary services, abbreviated ILS) is a service where patrons of one library can borrow materials and receive photocopies ...

(ILL) application protocol for communication between various document exchange systems.ISO link to ISO 10160-1
/ref> It allows ILL systems at different

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and residing on different hardware platforms and using different software packages such as VDX to communicate with each other to request and receive electronic documents. It is closely related to

ISO 10160 ISO 10160 is the ISO standard, first published in 1993, that defines the terminology that is used for interlibrary loan Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, document supply, or int ...

, the Interlibrary Loan Application Service Definition.

References

{{ISO standards #10161 Library automation