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Just How Right Are the Customers? An Analysis of the Relative Performance of Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Loan Monograph Purchases.
- Source :
- Collection Management; Jul-Dec2010, Vol. 35 Issue 3/4, p162-179, 18p, 4 Charts, 7 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- There has been a flurry of interest in programs for collection development through patron-initiated requests. However, some librarians have been concerned that such methods run the risk of producing idiosyncratic collections with poor usage and poor use value. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries have operated such a program through the Interlibrary Loan Department over a five-year period. The following study assesses the relative performance of the program's interlibrary loan-acquired monographs in terms of prices paid per rates of annual circulation, relative use at the topical level, and annual rates of circulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COLLECTION development in libraries
INTERLIBRARY loans
LIBRARY users
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01462679
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Collection Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 51519154
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2010.487030