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Witters, Maryanne – Online, 1984
Reviews Fast Interlibrary Loans and Statistics (FILLS), a library-specific microcomputer software package designed to enable processing of interlibrary loans in less than 50 percent of manual time. Examples of American Library Association Interlibrary Loan Form, outstanding loan report, periodical requests report, library reports (requests,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation
Fang, Josephine Riss – 1980
This paper focuses on cataloging and classification, which are the most time consuming of library operations, requiring highly trained staff and involving considerable expense, to provide an overview of the concepts and considerations for centralized cataloging and interlibrary loans. Centralized cataloging is defined as a cooperative arrangement…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Centralization, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs
Rouse, William B.; Rouse, Sandra H. – 1976
Relatively recent developments, ranging from microfilm catalogs to networked circulation systems, have the potential of removing much of the uncertainty from the routing of interlibrary loan requests. The opportunity of purchasing location and availability information changes the performance of a model interlibrary loan network. Data collected in…
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs

Reintjes, J. Francis – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
Examines hypothesis that it is technologically and economically feasible to move content of documents electronically among library network rather than documents themselves or photocopies thereof. Comparisons on basis of response-to-request time, quality of reproduced copy, cost factors, a three-node network, and economic study are highlighted. Six…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Costs, Electronic Equipment
Metrics Research Corp., Atlanta, GA. – 1982
A study of the libraries cooperating in the Fox Valley (Wisconsin) Interlibrary Loan Network compared alternative equipment and communications scenarios which would satisfy the functions desired by the libraries. The dominant communications need identified through a survey of network participants was the sending of interlibrary loan requests among…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Design Requirements, Feasibility Studies

Devenish-Cassell, Ann – Catholic Library World, 1986
Three major electronic developments have had a profound effect over the last 19 years on the interloan operation of a medium-sized public library system in central New York State: the Gaylord Brothers, Inc. Circulation System; the New York State Interlibrary Loan Network; and the OCLC, Inc.-Interlibrary Loan Subsystem. (EJS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Information Systems