Section III:
Broadening research Opportunities
Interlibrary Loan
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Lending and Borrowing Activities and Costs
In 1999/2000 the Library acquired 4,167 items for faculty and students, a 17% increase
over 1998/1999. Certainly, service issues associated with our life in temporary quarters
made interlibrary loan more appealing to readers than ever.
The staff, led by Sherry Warman, filled 91% of all requests.
Readers continued to request journal articles (which we obtain both from other
libraries and from commercial document suppliers) at substantially higher rates
than they request bound volumes (2,479 photocopies versus 1,538 bound items).
This underscores the heavy dependence of scholars in all disciplines--the
sciences, social sciences, and humanities--on periodical literature.
Brooklyn also provided 2,740 photocopies and books to other schools. (During the move
of the collections (June through August, 1999) we suspended lending books to other
libraries via interlibrary loan.)
CLIO Strengthens Management Information for Interlending & Document Supply
The statistical management package CLIO was installed in April, 1999. The vendor has
provided no training, so it has been a slow process in learning the software while working
around its various glitches. One of CLIO's benefits is that we no longer have to keep paper
copies of each request, because CLIO captures and stores the data.
The Research Sharing System
"With the advent of the RSS (Research Sharing System), the University is
becoming more and more like one library, with the ability to request and
move materials among campuses." Susan Vaughn, Associate Librarian for
Collection Development
The University has begun work with half a dozen campuses (including Brooklyn) to pilot
software that will permit readers to request loans from other CUNY campuses via the
CUNY+ circulation system. The software (which must be loaded both centrally and locally)
will effectively move intra-CUNY borrowing from the realm of interlibrary loan into that
of circulation.
