Borrow Direct: A Case Study of Patron-Initiated Interlibrary Borrowing Service [An article from: The Journal of Academic Librarianship]

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Description:
Although the current focus of library consortia has been their role as buying clubs, technology has opened up other important roles as well. One of these is a radical reassessment of physical resource sharing-increasing the ease, speed, popularity, and cost efficiency of the traditional interlibrary loan function. A case study of patron-initiated interlibrary borrowing among seven private East Coast institutions illustrates these advantages.