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Transfer From Print to Electronic Serials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Comparing the average cost per download for electronic journal packages to the average Interlibrary Loan cost can be both grossly inaccurate and wildly misleading.
Davis, Philip M.
core   +1 more source

Lessons Learned in Leaving the Library and Coming Back Again

open access: yesPennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2020
In early March 2020, libraries across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began to close in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. On March 19, staff members in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department at Penn State University Libraries pivoted to providing remote ...
Meg E. Massey
doaj   +1 more source

The Order of Success: A Slow Path to Copyright Librarianship

open access: yesJournal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 2022
No faculty lines were open when I graduated with my MLS at the library where I was employed as a staff member, but I was able to take advantage of organizational restructuring to obtain a management position over interlibrary loan. My department head at
LeEtta M. Schmidt
doaj   +1 more source

Leaving the “Big Deal” … Five Years Later [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) and the University of Oregon each withdrew from several Big Deals with major commercial journal publishers from 2008 to 2010.
Fowler, David, Nabe, Jonathan
core   +2 more sources

Benefit and Cost Analysis of Resource Sharing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Librarianship
Libraries are not exempt from rising costs. The situation presented is how libraries can continue to provide services while also finding efficiencies in labor and operational expenditures.
Cherie Weible, Janelle Sander
doaj   +1 more source

Lending and Borrowing across Borders: Issues and Challenges with International Resource Sharing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This article reports on a survey of U.S. libraries regarding international interlibrary loan.
Baich, Tina   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Web services to link interlibrary software with OCLC WorldShare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose - This article describes the use of web services to interconnect the GTBib interlibrary loan program with the OCLC WorldShare platform. Design/methodology/approach - We describe the current problem of duplication of procedures in libraries that ...
Rodríguez-Gairín, Josep-Manuel   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Systematically Reviewing the Rigour of Immersive Virtual Reality Research in STEM Education: A Deep Dive Into Threats to Internal Validity

open access: yesJournal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 42, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Background There have been many initiatives focused on implementing IVR in the classroom to either replace or supplement conventional instruction. The efficacy of these initiatives is often informed by IVR media comparison studies that examine the learning outcomes of students who learn academic content in IVR versus conventional media ...
Amédee Marchand Martella   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creative Destruction and Library Services.

open access: yesIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2013
The article describes how the Internet has pushed libraries to adopt a self-service model. With the licensing of online journal content, finding and retrieving articles no longer requires a visit to the library or the interlibrary loan office. Moreover,
Alvin Hutchinson
doaj   +1 more source

An Exploration of Journals Requested by Health Sciences Libraries Through DOCLINE Interlibrary Loan During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2023
COVID-19 challenged information exchange globally, including interlibrary loan (ILL). This project explored DOCLINE ILL borrowing data from 15 academic, hospital, and association health sciences libraries before and during the pandemic to understand ...
Caitlin Bakker   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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