2009 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Spring Conference: Working the Cataloging Landscape: Fishing,Mining, and Harvesting |
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| Authors: | Andrée J Rathemacher Martha Rice Sanders Kurt Blythe |
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| Institution: | 1. Rathemacher is head, Serial Units &2. Electronic Resources Librarian, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-2011, USAandree@uri.edu;3. Sanders is Knowledge Management Librarian, HELIN Consortium, Kingston, RI 02881-2011, USAmsanders@etal.uri.edu;4. Blythe is Serial Access Librarian, Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890, USAkcblythe@email.unc.edu |
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| Abstract: | AbstractRachel Fleming and Kristin Calvert of Western Carolina University discuss their study of interlibrary loan borrowing requests in the three years surrounding a journal cancellation project. Noting that the impact of such a cancellation on interlibrary loan has not been studied since the 1990s, they examine numerous facets of requests for cancelled and non-cancelled journals, including request per journal, year of article requested, and request history for newly cancelled journals. Though journal cancellations resulted in a 2 percent increase in interlibrary loan requests, this number proved so small that Calvert and Fleming judged that their cancellations caused no undue effects. |
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| Keywords: | Cancellation projects Electronic resource management Serials Interlibrary loan |
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