Recent Developments in Union Listing and Interlibrary Loan: Retrieval at a University Library

Union listing of serials on OCLC can bring about an increase in interlibrary loan and turn-around time when implemented at a university library. Formerly accessible as a subsystem of OCLC, union listing is now available on Connexion Browser as MARC 21 holdings data. Immediately following a batch loa...

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Published inJournal of interlibrary loan, document delivery & electronic reserve Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 325 - 333
Main Authors Madarash-Hill, Cherie, Hill, J B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2008
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Summary:Union listing of serials on OCLC can bring about an increase in interlibrary loan and turn-around time when implemented at a university library. Formerly accessible as a subsystem of OCLC, union listing is now available on Connexion Browser as MARC 21 holdings data. Immediately following a batch load of OCLC union listing records at medium-sized Louisiana university library, it was found that lending requests sent to the library were up 10% for all materials and up 13% for serials. An increase in borrower requests from patrons at the library was also observed when interlibrary loan request buttons were inserted into citation entries found on EBSCO host university databases.
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ISSN:1072-303X
1540-3572
DOI:10.1080/1072303080218-6306