Virtual Reading Room service guide

Abstract

This document was written as part of a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. It is designed as a service guide for a library, gallery, museum or archive intending on starting a Virtual Reading Room service. A Virtual Reading Room service provides access to Rare Books and Special Collections materials remotely in real-time, allowing clients to access items without having to travel or wait for specialist digitisation. The VRR service also gives access to collections that cannot be lent via traditional inter-library loan.