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INTERLIBRARY LOANS IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: A Survey

A.G. MACKENZIE (Keeper of Science Books, Durham University Library)

Journal of Documentation

ISSN: 0022-0418

Article publication date: 1 February 1960

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Abstract

The problems of interlibrary loans will always be with us; even in the past, no university could afford to buy or store all the material which its members might require, and with the present ever‐increasing amount of print and near‐print which is flowing from the presses of the world, the learned institutions might well be forgiven if they were to throw up their collective hands in despair. But whatever the future may hold, it has not yet come to that, and the don or research student still finds that even when his own library's resources are exhausted only one request in twenty which he may make through an interlibrary loan scheme is not eventually fulfilled [App. 3, Tab. 1].

Citation

MACKENZIE, A.G. (1960), "INTERLIBRARY LOANS IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: A Survey", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 41-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026280

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MCB UP Ltd

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