Consortial Circulation via Patron Placed Holds in the USMAI's Shared Catalog and its Impact on Collection Development and ILL

Demand-Driven Acquisitions for Print Books: How Holds Can Help as Much As Interlibrary Loan

“…She found that titles purchased to fill an ILL request or to support long holds queues saw much larger circulation than their traditional acquisitions counterparts. A more recent study showed the impact on the combined collection development budgets of a consortium of using holds to manage requests for books at other institutions (Ferguson, Flinchbaugh, & Moskal, 2013). While there is some discussion on how the holdings of other consortial partners impacted their decision to purchase a title or not, there was no mention of how the consortium handled heavily requested items or if multiple copies of the same title were ever purchased by the same institution.…”