INTERLENDING AND DOCUMENT SUPPLY: A REVIEW OF RECENT LITERATURE: VII

Abstract

This review begins by looking at interlending statistics from research libraries in New Zealand and the USA, which show a general increase in interlending activity, but with far more lending than borrowing being carried out. International interlending statistics for 1982 are briefly analysed and a paper describing the use of interlending statistics to detemine monographic acquisitions policy is discussed. Two major reports on interlending and document delivery in Quebec and the USA reveal inadequacies in these services, mainly in supply times, and their authors put forward suggestions for improvement in the future. The views of a US author on the future of document delivery are discussed along with an electronic messaging survey in the USA, the DOCDEL project in Europe and the present and future prospects for interlending in the USSR. News of new interlibrary loan subsystems in the major US on‐line bibliographic networks is given. Finally a new interlibrary loan handbook from the USA is reviewed.

Citation

Bennett, R.J. (1985), "INTERLENDING AND DOCUMENT SUPPLY: A REVIEW OF RECENT LITERATURE: VII", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008515