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Jacobs, Neil; Morris, Anne – Education for Information, 1999
The eLib-funded FIDDO (Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options) project provides library managers/others with information to support policy decisions. Senior libraries were interviewed about the future of document delivery and interviews were analyzed with the support of NUD*IST (Nonnumerical Unstructured Data by Indexing, Searching and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries

Boyle, Frances; Davies, Mary – Electronic Library, 1999
Discussion of access versus holdings of academic library materials and the performance of document-delivery services focuses on work at the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom) that is investigating existing and future document supply services, including costs. Expresses concern regarding the low level of subject coverage by many of the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Document Delivery

Lent, Robin; And Others – Against the Grain, 1997
At the University of New Hampshire, serial publications took 80% of the acquisitions budget, yet staff knew less about that portion (6,000 titles) of the collection than any other. Librarians surveyed faculty to determine interdisciplinary use, cost of a "better" collection, acceptability of document delivery and interlibrary loans, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, College Faculty, Costs

Kingma, Bruce R. – Library Trends, 1997
Using data on the cost of interlibrary loan, journal prices, and journal use, this article presents an economic analysis of the SUNY (State University of New York) Express consortium and the potential savings from consortium delivery of scholarly articles and joint collections development. Concludes that while considerable savings are possible…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems

Lim, Edward – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1998
The Australian university system can fund the creation of a scholarly collection of serials for use by the nation by increasing the average expenditure on libraries from 5.1% to 5.3% of total university expenditure. Once the national collection has been built, virtual access can be provided using a Web-based model called MEADS (Monash Electronic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Document Delivery, Educational Finance