BLL Review: Volume 5 Issue 1

INTERLENDING IN THE WEST MIDLANDS: A comparative study of the services provided by the West Midland Regional Library System and the British Library Lending Division

Malcolm D Smith

Requests received by the West Midland Regional Library Bureau (WMRLB) during a four week period early in 1976 were monitored within the Region and copies of all the requests were…

WAITING FOR INTER‐LIBRARY LOANS: Report of a study on the use made of the services of the BLLD with particular reference to the effects of delay on the users of a medical school library

Diana Barr, Jean Farmer

The paper reports the results of a study to determine the effect of the delays involved in obtaining interlibrary loans and photocopies on the work of users of a medical library…

THE SYSTEM OF INTERLIBRARY LOAN IN THE USSR

NG Samokhina

The ‘hierarchical centralization’ of the library system based on territorial divisions is described and the wide‐ranging role of the interlibrary loan centres is critically…

INTERLIBRARY LENDING AROUND THE WORLD—A REVIEW OF RECENT PAPERS— IV

Stephen CJ Vickers

A review of recent papers dealing with interlending in New Zealand, Nigeria and West Germany and the problems of centralised collections, communication, and union catalogues.

SCANDIAPLAN REPORT ON INTERLIBRARY LENDING: A SUMMARY

MJC Terry

This paper summarises a report on interlending in Scandinavia. The report, which is in Swedish, is important in that it is a review and discussion of research studies, practical…