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Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Tying Collection Development's Loose Ends With Interlibrary Loan, Margie Ruppel
Margie Ruppel
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to discover the characteristics and quality of interlibrary loan (ILL) titles, and determine whether purchasing ILL titles is a useful collection development method.
Design/methodology/approach - The study analyzed document containing 18,322 monographic education and psychology monographs borrowed by Southern Illinois University Carbondale patrons through I-Share, Illinois' statewide catalog, during the 2004 calendar year. Education and psychology books account for 574 of the 18,322 titles. The study located 132 reviews for 92 of the titles by searching PsycINFO and Education Abstracts. It recorded reviewer recommendation, publication date, publisher, source of review, and list …