The Futuer Using an Integrated Approach:

O'Connor, Phyllis; Wehmeyer, Susan; Weldon, Susan

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“…After ten years, OhioLINK included 17 public universities, 23 community and technical colleges, and 39 private colleges with access to more than 31 million items (Rogers, 2002). Early in OhioLINK's implementation of patron-initiated borrowing, O'Connor et al (1995) reported that traditional interlibrary loan of books among member libraries decreased substantially while journal requests and total lending increased. Several OhioLINK libraries merged their circulation and interlibrary loan departments.…”

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Patron‐initiated borrowing and traditional ILL: the cascade experience

Chmelir

2005

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Purpose -To report and analyze transaction data over a four-year period for patron-initiated borrowing via the Cascade union catalog as well as transaction data for traditional ILL in a consortium of six academic libraries in Washington State. Design/methodology/approach -Transaction data for patron-initiated borrowing via the Cascade union catalog were gathered from statistics produced by the Inn-Reach software. Data for ILL were collected via a survey of libraries' staff. Data for returnables and copies were analyzed at the consortium and institutional level. Findings -In the third year of patron-initiated borrowing, traditional ILL transactions for returnables had decreased 21 per cent consortium-wide, the total number of transactions for returnables had increased 271.9 per cent, and the transactions for copies remained steady. Although the borrowing and lending patterns at the six libraries varied, each loaned and borrowed more returnables via patron-initiated borrowing than via traditional ILL.Research limitations/implications -This study describes activity at a single consortium of only six libraries. Since the Cascade libraries have now merged into a larger consortium, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, it would be interesting to collect and analyze new data from the larger group to see if patterns have changed. Practical implications -The increased volume of returnables delivered to users in this consortium suggests that patron-initiated borrowing is an effective method for resource sharing. Traditional ILL remains a necessary alternative for copies and books not available within the consortium. Originality/value -This is the first study to examine consortium-wide transaction data for both patron-initiated borrowing and traditional interlibrary loan for a sustained period of time.

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Patron‐initiated borrowing and traditional ILL: the cascade experience

Chmelir

2005

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“…Various articles describe the success of OhioLINK (Hirshon 1995;Kohl 1994Kohl , 1997Kohl , 1998O'Connor et al 1995;Sanville 1995aSanville , 1995bSessions et al 1995) and other consortia (Preece et al 1998); however, there are few articles offering deeper analysis of patron-initiated borrowing as it is still a relatively recent phenomenon. Schulz (2002) made an attempt to do so in a detailed study of undergraduate library use within the OhioLINK system; that lengthy article forms the basis for the present more focused report.…”

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Your Place or Mine?

Schulz

2001

Collection Management

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This article describes undergraduate use of OhioLINK, Ohio's patron-initiated interlibrary loan system. Undergraduate requesting patterns from Ohio's various colleges and universities were examined as well as other data, such as undergraduate use of their local collections, institution size, and library size. Correlations were calculated in order to determine which of these factors were associated with high and low OhioLINK use by undergraduates; the results varied according to school type (college vs. university). Supplementing this overall study was a detailed survey of students and faculty at Wittenberg University who had made OhioLINK requests. The conclusions have implications for cooperative collection development plans.

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OhioLINK’s Formative Milestones: Part I, 1986–2003

Pawlowski

2022

Journal of Library Administration

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The Futuer Using an Integrated Approach:

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Patron‐initiated borrowing and traditional ILL: the cascade experience

Patron‐initiated borrowing and traditional ILL: the cascade experience

Your Place or Mine?

OhioLINK’s Formative Milestones: Part I, 1986–2003

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