The nature of the use and users of the Midwest Regional Medical Library

Using a 10 percent random sample of all requests submitted to the Midwest Regional Medical Library during 1968-1969, this study has revealed that physicians constitute the user group making the most requests, that physicians request periodical materials most, that 86.6 percent of materials requested were for periodicals, and that over one-third of materials requested was more than ten years old. It was found that 66.3 percent of requests were filled, that "Pathology, Diseases, and Treatment" was the subject category with the highest percentage of requests, and that this category and Materia Medica were the subjects accounting for over 50 percent of the requests from all users. The subject categories most frequently requested by physicians were found to be the same (Pathology, Diseases, and Treatment and Materia Medica) as for educators and researchers. The most requests from students were in the Materia Medica and "other" subject categories. These findings are significant for drawing up acquisition policy for both the John Crerar Library, which supplies the physical facilities for the MRML, and the borrowing library which submits the requests for users.     

The use of grey literature in health sciences: a preliminary survey

The paper describes some initiatives in the field of grey literature (GL) and the activities, from 1985, of the Italian Library Association Study Group. The major categories of GL are defined; a survey that evaluates the use of GL by end users in the health sciences is described. References in selected periodicals and databases have been analyzed for the years 1987-1988 to determine the number of articles citing GL, the number of GL citations found in selected periodicals, the various types of GL found, and the number of technical reports cited and their country of origin and intergovernmental issuing organization. Selected databases were also searched to determine the presence of GL during those same years. The paper presents the first results obtained.     

A method for estimating the in-house use of the periodical collection in the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library

During two one-week periods in April 1972, information on periodical title and date was gathered from periodicals collected from study and reshelving tables of the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library.IT WAS DETERMINED THAT: (1) a few titles accounted for most of the total use; (2) the relationship between age and amount of use of a journal may be described by the equation y = ke(-bx); and (3) the last five years of publication accounted for 58% of the total use.     

Impact of DOCLINE on interlibrary loan service at the National Library of Medicine

In March 1985, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) began implementation of DOCLINE, its automated interlibrary loan request routing and referral system. By the end of fiscal year (FY) 1987, over 1,400 biomedical libraries in all seven regions of the Regional Medical Library network were using the system. This report summarizes the findings of an analysis of the interlibrary loan (ILL) requests received in FY 1987, comparing the results with a similar analysis done in FY 1984 to describe any changes in the requests or service which might be attributable to DOCLINE implementation. DOCLINE has had a substantial impact upon ILL loan service at NLM. An increase in the number of ILL requests (35% over FY 1984) can be attributed to the speed and ease with which requests may be routed to NLM through DOCLINE. Requests which cannot be filled by local or regional libraries are automatically routed by the system to NLM as the library of last resort. NLM's fill rate for serial requests has declined, however, from 78% filled in FY 1984 to 67% filled in FY 1987. Some of the decline results from the 11,000 requests that NLM did not fill because the borrowing libraries were not willing to pay the NLM charge for filling the loans.     

Comprehensive access to periodicals: a database solution

Providing access to periodicals holdings simply and efficiently has, historically, presented problems at Old Dominion University’s (ODU) Perry Library for a number of reasons. The availability of a large number of online journal titles from aggregators and the need to support remote access to these resources led to the Perry Library’s developing a comprehensive online periodicals database of print and online titles. This online system uses the Perl computer language and the MySQL relational database system.     

我国图书馆学情报学期刊的发行

调查和分析我国图书馆学情报学期刊发行现状,指出入世后我国图书馆学情报学期刊发行面临的机遇。在此基础上,提出我国图书馆学情报学期刊应注重提高质量和联系读者,并可采取以邮局发行为主自办发行为辅、代理发行、网络出版发行、读者俱乐部、研究会、差别定价、异业渠道发行、编委宣传等多种行之有效的发行方式。     

我国图书馆学学者文献利用的调查与分析

我国图书馆学学者文献利用的调查与分析ABSTRACTPaperspublishedfrom1993to1995in"TheJournaloftheLibraryScienceinChina",the"LibraryandInformationServce"andthe"JournalofAceademicLibraries"arethemosttobecitedbytheotherlibraryscienceperiodicalsandareofacompar...     

Borrowing trouble? The impact of a systematic review service on interlibrary loan borrowing in an academic health sciences library

Background:With the mandate to review all available literature in the study''s inclusion parameters, systematic review projects are likely to require full-text access to a significant number of articles that are not available in a library''s collection, thereby necessitating ordering content via interlibrary loan (ILL). The aim of this study is to understand what effect a systematic review service has on the copyright royalty fees accompanying ILL requests at an academic health sciences library.Case Presentation:The library created a custom report using ILLiad data to look specifically at 2018 ILL borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews. This subset of borrowing activity was then analyzed to determine its impact on the library''s copyright royalty expenditures for the year. In 2018, copyright eligible borrowing requests that were known to be part of systematic reviews represented only approximately 5% of total filled requests that involved copyright eligible borrowing. However, these systematic review requests directly or indirectly caused approximately 10% of all the Spencer S. Eccles Library copyright royalty expenditures for 2018 requests.Conclusion:Based on the sample data set, the library''s copyright royalty expenditures did increase, but the overall financial impact was modest.     

Update on inflation of journal prices: medical journals, U.S. journals, and Brandon/Hill list journals

This paper examines the increases in prices for the last twenty years for the journals listed in the 1987 Brandon/Hill list and for the last twelve years for those on a list of medical and general periodicals published annually in Library Journal. This information is compared to the general U.S. inflation rate as measured by the Consumer Price Index. Despite the decline in the general rate of inflation, the buying power of libraries has continued to dwindle. Librarians need to use this information when justifying increased budget requests. They also need to interact more effectively with publishers to resolve this problem. The buying power of the dollar (as compared to the 1975 dollar) spent on the Brandon/Hill list journals is now 59% of that of a dollar spent in the general economy. This compares to 64% in 1983, when this research was last updated.     

The Effects of Reference,Instruction, Database Searches,and Ongoing Expenditures on Full-text Article Requests: An Exploratory Analysis

ACRL Library Trends and Statistics survey data from two years were analyzed to explore relationships among variables thought to predict full-text article requests. Five different regression models predicted full-text article requests from variables including reference transactions, library instruction, Web site visits, database searches, and ongoing expenditures. Full-time student enrollment and Carnegie classification were included as covariates in all five models. All regressions supported using enrollment as a covariate; four of the regressions supported using Carnegie classification as an additional covariate. Results suggested that reference transactions, library instruction, and ongoing expenditures increase the number of database searches and full-text requests beyond these covariates. Ongoing expenditures made the largest contribution in all models, but did not always contribute the most unique variance. Furthermore, a mediation analysis showed a significant indirect effect of library instruction on full-text requests through database searches. This study suggests most ACRL data may need log transformation before using regression analyses, and offers one approach to interpreting results. Future research could investigate the meaning of ongoing expenditures after controlling for institutional size and Carnegie classification. Additional variables such as interlibrary loan usage or whether the library has a discovery tool might be interesting to include in similar models.     

《中国图书馆学报》被引调查与分析

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Document Delivery at a Veterinary Medical Library

The purpose of this study is to assess the use of document delivery services provided for primary clientele of the Veterinary Medical Library at Auburn University. This study describes and quantifies external library use patterns of the College of Veterinary Medicine faculty, staff and students, for a twelve-month period, though an analysis of the library's courier and interlibrary loan services. Three hypotheses are tested: (1) the majority of courier and interlibrary loan requests are for serials; (2) most serial requests are for nonveterinary journals; and (3) the demand for interlibrary loan and courier services follows a non-random pattern of distribution, i.e., the numbers of requests per month are unequal. The first two hypotheses are confirmed. Of the 2,376 requests for library materials external to VML, 2,197 (92%) are for serials; of the serials requests 1,608 (73%) are for nonveterinary journals. The third hypothesis is also confirmed. The chi square predicates a nonrandom distribution of requests by month. This study defines the nature of veterinary research as interdisciplinary. Findings identify collection weaknesses and requirements for new acquisitions.     

从期刊回溯工作谈期刊的管理——以北京大学图书馆期刊回溯工作为例

结合北京大学图书馆的期刊回溯工作，提出期刊按分类排架管理的方式。指出分类管理中应注意的问题，具体介绍分类法与分类级别确立的原则、学科属性之间的关系、期刊版本的著录形式，期刊变化沿革的延续或分离等问题。提出刊次号按卡特著者号取号的方式，并比较分类排架与刊名字顺排架方式的利弊。     

我国图书馆学期刊1990年的发文及引文统计分析

Twenty periodicals of China including the "Bulletin of the Library Science in China" had published in 1990 totally 100 issues of 2006 outgoing pieces and 3489 citations. From the system of outgoing pieces point of view, the college libraries were of the most (54.63%); from the point of view of administrative divisions, the East China was of the most (25.02%); from the point of view of selected topics of outgoing articles, library and information undertaking construction was of the most (10.16%) and from the point of view authors of outgoing pieces,there were 15 people who had published more than 5 pieces,among them Huang Zongzhong and Cheng Huanwen had written the most (Each had written 10 pieces).Statistics and analysis are also made by the author for the amount of citations,languages,types of documents,subjects,years,periodicals cited as well as the authors.14 tables.     

卡特号在期刊分类排架体系中的扩展应用-以北京大学图书馆期刊索刊号为例

长期以来,图书馆界就期刊的排架方式方面一直存在着刊名字顺与学科分类两种截然不同的观点和做法。2003年以来北京大学图书馆在编目实践中,借鉴西文图书卡特著者号的基本规则,将卡特著者号进行个性化扩展后应用到中西文期刊的排架工作中。该文简述了索书号的构成方式及其重要性,通过大量实例详述了在组织分类排架过程中如何兼顾和解决中西文期刊的字顺关系、继承关系、语种间关系以及重号关系等,目的在于与同行探讨卡特号的扩展、变通使用的做法及可行性。     

研究型图书馆外文期刊采访探析

研究型图书馆外文期刊采访工作在复合图书馆时期经历着巨大的变革,信息技术和出版技术的飞速发展,电子期刊的大量引进,读者需求的不断变化以及期刊经费的不足,使得外刊采访工作面临着巨大的机遇和挑战;调整馆藏发展规划,协调纸本期刊和电子期刊的发展,整合开放存取期刊,参加集团采购,建立联合馆藏走共建共享之路以及转变外刊采访馆员的角色等则成为应对挑战的重要举措。     

Unnecessary Requests: Examining Patrons’ Reliance on Interlibrary Loan for Electronically Owned Items at an Academic Library

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Library analyzed 4,567 interlibrary loan borrowing requests for articles and other non-returnables. From 2017–2018, nearly 44% of requests were for items that the library owned electronically. Patrons could have accessed the full-text immediately but submitted interlibrary loan requests instead. This prevalence raises questions about user behavior and deficiencies in discovery tools.     

FAIR USE CRITERIA: AN INTERIM APPLICATION

The Linda Hall Library, an endowed public research library for science and technology, has been applying the fair use criteria enumerated in Public Law 94-553 since December 1976. The application of those criteria has accounted for rejections of only 3.29% of all requests received. The library's experience with fair use as measured by the new law indicates that the collection, except for the restrictions that will be imposed by Section 108, will continue to be available to remote users to nearly the same degree as in the past, for over 96% of the requests received did not conflict with the fair use criteria.     

The program of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

The planning of the Countway Library took place in an atmosphere of community interest and support. Architectural planning was effective and harmonious. The building functions well. The program of the Library is briefly described. Serials records, involving 17,000 titles, have been mechanized. A rare books program has been initiated. Since building occupancy, the Library has substituted copy service for the lending of periodicals. For an experimental period, the copy service was cost free. The Aesculapian Room, for non-medical recreational reading, has had the generous support of the Aesculapian Club. Plans for regional library service in New England are based upon an historic commitment of the Boston Medical Library. A MEDLARS regional search center and a national Vision Information Center have been established in the Countway.