Borrow or buy? cost-effective delivery of monographs

James A. Van Fleet; Jennifer Clarke

Borrow or buy? cost-effective delivery of monographs

James A. Van Fleet, Jennifer Clarke

Bucknell University

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Abstract

In an effort to reduce Interlibrary borrowing activity, while enhancing the Library collection, the Bertrand Library has initiated a program to purchase current monographs requested through ILL by Bucknell University students and faculty. The results have been a successful reduction in ILL workload, and a cost-effective means of document delivery as measured by average delivery time, cost-per-title, processing costs, and circulation statistics. This procedure reflects an overall change in our philosophy concerning document access and delivery, which led to the reorganization of ILL services and staff in the Bertrand Library.

Original language	American English
Journal	Default journal
Volume	9
State	Published - Jan 1 1999

Keywords

interlibrary loan
monographs
purchasing
acquisition
circulation

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

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Borrow or buy? cost-effective delivery of monographs

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