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Download full textOlson, Paul E.; Pletzke, Chester J. – 1975
A cost-benefit analysis of the 43-library, 260,000-title Midwest Medical Union Catalog (MMUC) of books, conducted from June, 1973, through May, 1975, under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, studied the 49-year-old catalog in the context of the interlibrary loan activity of the Midwest Health Science Library Network. The study tested…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Dissemination, Interlibrary Loans
PDF pending restorationPaskoff, Beth; Perrault, Anna – 1990
A shelflist sampling project was conducted at six academic libraries in Louisiana--Loyola University, Louisiana State University, Nicholls State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, Southern University, and Tulane University--and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The main objective of the data-gathering and analysis using…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection
West, Martha W.; Koch, Rowena A. – 1974
In the spring of 1973, a study was conducted of the interlibrary lending (ILL) process at the California State University and Colleges (CSUC) libraries. Twelve of the 19 CSUC campuses were involved in the study--four in northern California and eight in southern California, the latter already experimenting with telefacsimile interlibrary loan…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Facsimile Transmission, Higher Education
Council on Library Resources, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1984
This report reviews the background and rationale for a cooperative authority file building system and describes the services, products, and operation of the new Name Authority Cooperative (NACO). The document defines the relationship between NACO, other Library of Congress (LC) cooperative projects, and the Linked Systems Project (LSP). The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Indexing, Information Networks
Breno, Patricia M. – 1998
This paper reports on a research project that evaluates the impact of OhioLINK's resource sharing options upon traditional interlibrary loan services and organization. This impact is documented by a study of the interlibrary loan transactions processed by the Interlibrary Loan Department, Carlson Library, University of Toledo, before and after…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Document Delivery, Electronic Journals
Soete, George J., Comp. – SPEC Kit, 1998
This survey was conducted to discover how extensively ARL (Association of Research Libraries) libraries are involved in formal, active programs of collaboration for collections management. Seventy ARL libraries completed a questionnaire focusing on all collections formats and a number of related collections management activities. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Higher Education, Library Administration
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1985
This survey updates a 1976 survey conducted by the Division for Library Services of Wisconsin. The original survey obtained broad information on patterns of participation in cooperative activities by all types of libraries, including volume demands, referral patterns, and needs for interlibrary loan and reference between different types of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Cooperative Planning, Higher Education
Daval, Nicola, Comp.; Brennan, Patricia, Comp. – 1993
This volume presents data for the U.S. and Canadian libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1991-92 fiscal year. The ARL membership consisted of 108 university libraries and 12 public or private independent research libraries. Overall, the 1991-92 statistics offer a gloomy view of the traditional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Economic Impact, Financial Problems
