The following resource sharing groups are commonly used by Missouri libraries in their interlibrary loan procedures. If you subscribe to OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing service, you can also use MIGI, LVIS, and NEPU to display a narrower set of holdings and make the selection of potential lenders a little easier.

MMLA A&B (MLNC/Missouri Lending Agreement)
MMLA is a resource sharing agreement available to Missouri libraries in two parts. Libraries that sign Part A agree not to charge for the lending of library materials. Libraries that sign Part B agree to provide up to 30 pages of no-charge photocopying to each other.  You do not need to use OCLC ILL in order to be a member of this agreement.

• Alphabetical list of members by institution name
• Agreement and application form 
  Return completed forms to the attention of Deb Ehrstein at the MLNC office.

MIGI (Missouri Interlibrary Group Initiative - pronounced "My Guy")
MIGI is a resource sharing group made up of MLNC member libraries in Missouri and a few in Illinois and Kansas (near the metro areas of St. Louis and Kansas City).  MIGI also contains the union list holdings of the former Missouri Union List of Serial Publications.  The group was originally formed to allow libraries who did not catalog with OCLC a way to use OCLC Interlibrary Loan.  MLNC member libraries who use the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service are automatically members of this group.

LVIS (Libraries Very Interested in Sharing, pronounced "Elvis")
LVIS is an OCLC resource sharing group whose members agree to lend and photocopy materials at no charge to other LVIS members.  LVIS, which was established in 1993, began out of a shared goal between MLNC and the Illinois State Library to encourage and provide greater opportunities for resource sharing throughout the Midwest region. With the nationwide expansion of LVIS, multi-type libraries from all over the country have joined to take advantage of no charge resource sharing.

• Alphabetical list of members by state and OCLC symbol
• Alphabetical list of members by OCLC symbol
• Agreement  (Return completed forms to the attention of Deb Ehrstein at the MLNC office.)

NEPU is the ILL Group symbol for the National Newspaper Project. Don’t let the name fool you though, the group has holdings for all kinds of serials, not just newspapers.

For more information about ILL groups in OCLC or in Missouri, contact Deb Ehrstein (x816) at 800-969-6562.