Annual Report 1996/ 1997
4. Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
- The ILL/DD staff implemented Aviso 5.2, an Interlibrary Loans Management and Messaging software package, which contains some long awaited workflow and statistics-logging improvements.
- Completed a SwetScan Trial with the help of Davis liaison librarians. SwetScan is a table-of-contents and patron-initiated ordering service produced in part by CISTI. The collection strength is in the areas of Science, Medicine and Technology. The outcome of the trial resulted in a decision to make the SwetScan service available as a TUG initiative beginning in fall 1997.
- Moved ILL/DD funding controls to the Acquisitions Budget and transferred invoice payment to the Library Acquisition Unit for better man agement.
- Created email forms and procedures, with Tri University Group of Libraries (TUG) partners, for the delivery of documents from the TUG Annex.
Interlibrary Loan Trends 1996/97
| YEAR |
UW Borrowing |
UW Lending |
| 1990/91 |
4,902 |
6,527 |
| 1991/92 |
4,940 |
6,899 |
| 1992/93 |
4,960 |
5,917 |
| 1993/94 |
4,466 |
7,475 |
| 1994/95 |
6,313 |
8,989 |
| 1995/96 |
7,598 |
8,039 |
| 1996/97 |
9,564 |
11,970 |
| % increase |
95.1% |
83.4% |
There has been an 88% increase in ILL traffic since 1990/91 (from 11,429 to 21,534).
- During the past year there has been a 38% increase in completed UW ILL transactions (15,637 to 21,534). Borrowing activity increased by 27%.
- Lending activity increased by 49% in the last year. Waterloo was asked to supply 17,000 items and was able to fill 12,000 of those orders.
- 55% University of Waterloo ILL transactions are with other Ontario academic libraries.
- 10.5% of all Waterloo Library ILL traffic is borrowing materials from CISTI.
- Waterloo lends over four times as much (8% of total) as it borrows from CREPUQ (Quebec academic libraries).
- Waterloo lends almost seven times as much as it borrows from Canadian libraries outside of Ontario (13% of total).
- Waterloo ILL traffic with the National Library of Canada is low: 1.2%.
- Waterloo borrows 10.4 times more than it lends to USA libraries (1180 to 113, 114% of total).
- Waterloo borrows 5.6 times more than it lends to International Libraries (316 to 56, 2% of total).
Click here to view a comparison chart comparing the lending and loaning percentages of several different libraries.
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Last Updated: June 6, 2005
