Interlibrary Loan Reciprocal/Consortium Agreements: How Important Are They?

Traditionally, interlibrary loan has been one avenue in which libraries have actively participated in resource sharing. To make this form of resource sharing more cost effective and beneficial for libraries and library users, librarians continue to establish interlibrary loan reciprocal agreements a...

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Published inJournal of interlibrary loan, document delivery & electronic reserve Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 13 - 19
Main Author Fuller, David H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Binghamton, NY Taylor & Francis Group 10.08.1998
Haworth Press
Subjects
Exact sciences and technology
Florida University
Information and communication sciences
Information dissemination (open archives, open access,...) and document delivery
Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction
Information science. Documentation
Interloans
Reciprocal agreements
Sciences and techniques of general use
Smathers Libraries
University libraries
Florida
United States
North America
America
Interlibrary loan
Agreement
Survey
Efficiency
Cooperation
Library
Quantitative analysis
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Summary:Traditionally, interlibrary loan has been one avenue in which libraries have actively participated in resource sharing. To make this form of resource sharing more cost effective and beneficial for libraries and library users, librarians continue to establish interlibrary loan reciprocal agreements and cooperative arrangements with one another. The purpose of this case study is to determine how effective interlibrary loan reciprocal/consortium agreements have been for the University of Florida Smathers Libraries. Thus, a statistical analysis of interlibrary loan OCLC borrowing transactions over the past five years was conducted.
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ISSN:1072-303X
1540-3572
DOI:10.1300/J110V09N01_03