Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks

Download or read book Higher Education Interlibrary Loan Management Benchmarks, 2014 written by Primary Research Group and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study presents detailed data on the interlibrary loan operations of approximately 50 colleges and universities with data broken out for different types of higher education institutions and by other variables, such as for public and private institutions, and by college enrollment level. The report gives detailed data on turnaround times for various kinds of interlibrary loan borrowing and lending requests, use of technology and services, impact of distance learning and MOOCs on interlibrary loan, copyright and open access issues, the administrative jurisdiction of the interlibrary loan department, departmental cost structure, personnel benchmarks, trends in departmental budgets and other issues in interlibrary loan management.