Interlending Review: Volume 9 Issue 3

THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION IN 1980–81

The year saw for the first time a reduction in demand (by 2.1%) — a small reduction (1.2%) in the case of British demand, larger (6.3%) for foreign demand. 2,856,000 requests in…

INTERLIBRARY LENDING AROUND THE WORLD; A REVIEW OF RECENT PAPERS: XII

Brian Kefford

Eleven different studies of interlending efficiency at regional level or in individual libraries are summarized. A network of academic libraries in NW Canada relies on its largest…

UNIVERSAL AVAILABILITY OF PUBLICATIONS IN HUNGARIAN LIBRARIES

Aranka Rácz‐Nagy

Hungarian libraries have been organized into networks since the 1950s, and more recently there have been efforts to co‐ordinate acquisitions. The high cost of foreign publications…

VIII A SUMMARY AND RESPONSE

Maurice B Line

The responses from six countries to the original paper on planning inter/ending in developing countries have added considerably to our knowledge of the problems and possibilities…

MINIMAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECKING OF INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUESTS

Malcolm Smith

An investigation of the effects of submitting inter‐library loan requests after only a minimal check on their bibliographic details was first proposed in the UK by the British…

INTERNAL COSTS OF INTERLIBRARY LENDING IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Stephen A Roberts

The question of interlibrary loan costs is of major importance to librarians in higher education establishments. In May 1978 the Library Management Research Unit (now the Centre…