LITERATURE SUPPLY FOR THE HUMANITIES: USE AND PROTECTION OF HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE GERMAN INTERLIBRARY LOAN SYSTEM

Abstract

Literature supply in the Federal Republic of Germany is organized on a decentralized, co‐operative basis; the bulk of requests submitted is handled by libraries located in one interlending area. The supply of literature in the fields of technology, medicine, agriculture and economics is the special responsibility of 4 central subject libraries, while the humanities are covered by 17 special subject collections housed in various university libraries. There has been a significant growth in interlibrary loan requests in the last 10 years and the traffic is currently around 2.2 million requests per year.

Citation

Lehmann, K. (1987), "LITERATURE SUPPLY FOR THE HUMANITIES: USE AND PROTECTION OF HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE GERMAN INTERLIBRARY LOAN SYSTEM", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 108-110. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008548