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The Structure of Resource Sharing in Academic Research Libraries.
Cheryl LaGuardia,Connie V. Dowell +1 more
- Vol. 30, Iss: 3
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The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Library catalog & Resource Description and Access.read more
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Staffing trends in college and university libraries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present six trends across public and technical services affecting librarians, non-MLS professionals, and paraprofessionals in college and university libraries.
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Restructuring the academic library: Team-based management and the merger of interlibrary loans with circulation and reserve
TL;DR: The Ryerson University Library has recently adopted a team-based management model in order to ameliorate growing pressures on service points consistent with increased demand for interlibrary loans, growing circulation activity, stagnant staffing levels, and a larger influx of students as a result of the double cohort as discussed by the authors.
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Role of conspectus in collection management and resource sharing
TL;DR: Conspectus is an instrument, an assessment methodology and a consortia database which enables providing optimum patron specific access model for resource sharing among libraries as discussed by the authors, which helps making more informed decisions regarding acquisitions, collection development, fund allocations, budget requests, grants and preservation.
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Evaluating the Staffing of an Interlibrary Loan Unit: An Exercise in Data-Driven Decision Making and Debunking “Anecdata”
TL;DR: The former Head of Access Services of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library reports on the recent attempt to restructure the interlibrary loan unit of the department, finding the greatest challenges proved to be moving beyond unfounded perception.
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A Case for Integration of Interlibrary Loan and Reference
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reveal results of a recent survey from 324 participants that includes library personnel from public, academic, and special libraries throughout the United States and support the literature that ILL personnel strongly believe that their work is more closely related to reference than that pertaining to circulation or technical services.
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Staffing of Interlibrary Loan Service
TL;DR: The replies show surprisingly little consensus, and additional investigation is clearly warranted, as to whether present staff is ample, barely adequate, or inadequate for interlibrary loan.
The Impact of Adding Retrospective Conversion Holdings to OCLC on Interlibrary Loan Lending.
TL;DR: Findings indicate that not only did the library's use of OCLC greatly increase the number of re quests but that the addition of retrospective conversion items to OCRC contributed to the increase.