Interlending Review: Volume 7 Issue 3
Table of contents
THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION IN 1978/79
After a reduced rate of increase in 1977/78, demand resumed its previous growth rate: 8% more requests were received than in the previous year — 6.5% more from British…
FIVE YEARS ADVISING
Brian VickeryThe Advisory Committee for L ending Services is comprised mainly of senior, experienced professionals from all types of library. The Committee has wide terms of reference from…
INTERLIBRARY LENDING AROUND THE WORLD — A REVIEW OF RECENT PAPERS — VIII
Stephen VickersThis review considers the construction and value of union catalogues in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, Australia, the USA and Scandinavia, and…
Some operational costs of the gift and exchange section of the British Library Lending Division
A AllardyceA diary survey was conducted in May 1978 to find the unit costs of various activities in the Gift and Exchange Section at the British Library Lending Division. An analysis of the…
The economics of the Universal Serials and Book Exchange (USBE)
Howard RovelstadThe Universal Serials and Book Exchange, Incorporated (USBE) is a non‐profit, independent, self‐supporting library service organisation founded in 1948 which operates a…
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
MM Barwick, A SheldonMonograph cataloguing at the Lending Division is divided into two systems, one for new books and one for donated books. The cataloguing rules, which are common to both systems…