THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN INTERLENDING SCHEME: SOME RESULTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY

A comprehensive survey of the Southern African Interlending Scheme was undertaken from January 1985 to February 1986. After a brief overview of the scheme and the survey, estimates of the total volume of requests, broken down by countries and types of library, are presented, together with findings r...

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Published in:Interlending & document supply 1987-04, Vol.15 (4), p.101-107
Main Author: Lor, Peter J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquisitions
Cooperation
Exact sciences and technology
General aspects
Information and communication sciences
Information dissemination (open archives, open access,...) and document delivery
Information publishing, dissemination and reproduction
Information science. Documentation
Interloans
Sciences and techniques of general use
South Africa
Southern African Interlending Scheme
Surveys
Technical services
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Summary:A comprehensive survey of the Southern African Interlending Scheme was undertaken from January 1985 to February 1986. After a brief overview of the scheme and the survey, estimates of the total volume of requests, broken down by countries and types of library, are presented, together with findings relating to fill rates, turnaround times, and the distribution of the interlending volume among member libraries. It was found that interlending traffic was of the order of 300,000 requests in 1985, with a fill rate of 80% and a median turnaround time of 10 days for first requests. University libraries and those in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region dominate the traffic, and the concentration of demand on a small number of libraries is cause for concern.
ISSN:0264-1615
1758-5848
DOI:10.1108/eb008547