Relationship Between Classes of Books Circulated and Classes of Books Requested on Interlibrary Loan (Collection, Evaluation)

This study examined the hypothesis that libraries are most likely to borrow materials in overused classes and least likely to borrow materials in underused classes. An overused class is one in which the library's own holdings are used more than expected (in a probabilistic sense), relative to its proportional size within the collection. Such classes may be inadequate to support the needs of the library's users, forcing increased reliance on the interlibrary lending mechanism. An underused class was defined as the reverse of an overused class. In short, the study examined the use of subject classes via two criteria--relative use and interlibrary loan, and analyzed the relationship between both.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Library Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Aguilar, William

• Library Science

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8409739

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69482