OCLC Launches WorldCat Direct

WorldCat Direct is a delivery service that integrates interlibrary loan and direct delivery to library users. Through a partnership with Better World Books, a social enterprise book supplier that supports literacy initiatives worldwide, WorldCat Direct is now available as a beta feature to users of WorldCat Resource Sharing in the U.S. Libraries that offer WorldCat Direct to their users pay delivery fees using the Interlibrary Fee Management (IFM) capability in WorldCat Resource Sharing.