[Eril-l] Primary Research Group Inc. has published Academic Library Resource Sharing Program Benchmarks, ISBN 979-8-88517-239-4

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This study looks closely at the book and other resource sharing programs
that academic libraries maintain with library partners, opening one
another’s collections to one another’s library patrons.  The report gives
detailed data on the types of materials shared, with separate data sets for
books, journals, magazines and other periodicals, audio-visual materials,
textbooks and special collections – with separate data sets for each type
of material.  In addition, the report looks at library plans to expand or
contract such arrangements and measures the percentage of library patron
book borrowing accounted for by access through such arrangements.  The
study also relates the mean and median percentage of a library’s holdings
subject to such arrangements and looks at issues of standardization of
borrowing terms.  In open ended question, the survey participants comment
on their future plans.

Just a few of this 54-page report’s many findings are that:

• A shade more than 12% of survey respondents share textbooks.
• Survey respondents were sharing their collections with a median of 10 and
a mean of 24.54 institutional partners.
• 9.1% of respondents said that borrowing terms were completely
standardized among all of their institutional partners.

Data in the report is based on detailed interviews with resource sharing
program directors from 33 colleges and universities; data is presented in
the aggregate and broken out for college/university size, type,
public/private status, and tuition level.

For a table of contents, the questionnaire and an excerpt – view the
product page at:   https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=801
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