Recent developments in union listing and interlibrary loan: Retrieval at a university library
Abstract
Union listing of serials on OCLC can bring about an in- crease in interlibrary loan and turn-around time when implemented at a university library. Formerly accessible as a subsystem of OCLC, union listing is now available on Connexion Browser as MARC 21 holdings data. Immediately following a batch load of OCLC union listing records at medium-sized Louisiana university library, it was found that lend- ing requests sent to the library were up 10% for all materials and up 13% for serials. An increase in borrower requests from patrons at the li- brary was also observed when interlibrary loan request buttons were inserted into citation entries found on EBSCO host university databases.
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