Assessing undergraduate interlibrary loan use

Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-48

  Frank, Polly P ^a   Bothmann, Robert L ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interlibrary loan; Interlibrary loan non users; Interlibrary loan users; OpenURL; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249172546     PISSN: 1072303X     EISSN: 15403572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J474v18n01_05     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Minnesota State University, Mankato, "Fast Facts," Minnesota State University, Mankato, March 4, 2005, http://www.mnsu.edu/supersite/about/ facts.html (accessed May 2, 2006).
2. Melissa Holmberg (Electronic Resources Librarian, Minnesota State University, Mankato), E-mail to authors, April 28, 2006.
3. Polly Frank, "Study of interlibrary loan use by patron type, subjects requested and format" (sabbatical research, unpublished, 2004).
4. Sonja Landes, "Interlibrary Loan Survey: State University of New York College at Geneseo Libraries," Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply 11(4) 2001: 75-80.
5. SUNY Geneseo had a total student population of 5,600 with only six graduate programs, inferring that many of the survey respondents were undergraduate students.
6. Gail Herrera, "Interlibrary Loan User Behaviors in an Academic Library," Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply 14(2) 2003: 19-36.
7. Herrera, 32.
8. Herrera, 20. Calculated by the authors from data presented in the article. The University of Mississippi had 293 undergraduate users registered in ILLiad™ (table 1, 22) and an undergraduate FTE of 9,891.
9. Mary Ann Chappell, "Meeting Undergraduate Literature Needs with Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery," Serials Review 19(1) 1993: 81-6.
10. Jody Foote and Roland Person, "The Unexpected Effect of Online Databases on Undergraduate Use of Interlibrary Loan," Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply 5(4) 1995: 65-72.
11. Foote and Person, 71.
12. Minnesota State University, Mankato, Office of Institutional Research, e-mail to authors, February 15, 2005.