The ALIN Manual. The Alabama Public Library Service Interlibrary Loan Manual. Second Edition.

The purpose of this manual is to assist libraries throughout Alabama in requesting materials and information through the Alabama Library Information Network (ALIN). Designed as part of an ongoing effort that will be updated, the guide contains profiles of the interlibrary loan policies from academic, public, special, and junior college libraries who are contributors to the Alabama Interlibrary Catalog (ALICAT), a computer-output-microfiche union catalog, and/or the Alabama Union List of Serials (AULS), which is published in microfiche and in print. The first three parts of the manual cover: (1) the structure, tools, and services of ALIN; (2) procedures for using ALIN; and (3) the network components of the system, i.e., the Alabama Public Library Service and Reference and Interlibrary Loan (RILL) Service Centers. The fourth part presents holding symbols for ALICAT contributors, holding codes of AULS contributors cross-referenced to ALICAT codes, OCLC symbols cross-referenced to ALICAT codes, and the interlibrary loan policies of the 94 contributor libraries. Appended matter includes a 13-item glossary; the 1988 revised "Interlibrary Loan Code for the State of Alabama"; the "National Interlibrary Loan Code, 1980"; a list of microform collections available from the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS); guidelines for telefacsimile use within Alabama; and rules and regulations for APLS net-lending programs. (SD)