Interlending Review: Volume 6 Issue 2

INTERLIBRARY LENDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: Summary report of a national survey conducted in February 1977

Maurice B Line, Robert J Steemson

To obtain a national picture of interlibrary lending in the UK, a survey of all libraries was carried out in February 1977, with an approximate 75% response. A third of all…

REPLACEMENT OF PERIODICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS BY BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION SERVICES

AM Woodward

A study of 1,696 loan requests satisfied by the British Library Lending Division showed that approximately 3% are for journals that used to be taken by the borrowing library but…

TELEFACSIMILE USE IN US LIBRARIES

Hans Engelke

The impact of telefacsimile in the United States has been negligible, only three states having state‐wide telefacsimile networks. The speed of service achieved by the use of…

PRINCIPLES OF NATIONAL INTERLENDING SYSTEMS

Maurice B Line, Stephen Vickers

Physical access to material has largely been taken for granted but as interlibrary lending has increased so the design of interlending systems needs to be examined. 21 principles…

Brief Communications

JS Davey, Malcolm Smith, JE Vickery

The National Central Library and later the National Lending Library for Science and Technology had always, as part of their services, provided libraries with locations or passed…