More and more libraries are investigating the possibility of breaking apart or unbundling their Big Deal publisher packages. In doing so, libraries acknowledge and ready themselves for the possibility of a significant portion of journal use shifting to interlibrary loan (ILL), and attempt to estimate what this shift from subscription to the ILL mode means in terms of costs. This study investigates three years of ILL usage data for 169 journals prior to undertaking subscriptions and then COUNTER usage for these same journals over a three year subscription period. The result suggests a predictive ratio of ILL requests to COUNTER uses and COUNTER uses to ILL requests.

A recent institutional study at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay investigated the academic achievement of interlibrary loan (ILL) users as compared to non-ILL users. While this study provided important local insight into ILL use and the demographics of ILL users (class rank, major), it uncovered a rather minor overall GPA difference, .20 GPA points, between ILL users and non-ILL users. However, within this data was an interesting subset that once thoroughly investigated, provided rich details about ILL article use, the users who rely on ILL for articles and the GPA differences between users' across the spectrum of ILL article use. The resulting analysis compares users who use ILL for a large number of articles, those who use ILL for a medium number of articles, those who use ILL for a small number of articles and those who do not use ILL. Takeaways from the data presented should provide libraries and practitioners with a greater understanding of ILL article use, its role in user information seeking behaviors, its correlational effect on student academic achievement, and for whom-ILL article users-libraries are incurring the high cost of articles through ILL.

This thesis is an historical examination of the Marian and Elizabethan persecutions, with special emphasis paid to the martyrologies and the anti-maryrologies of each queen. Through analysis of primary documents this project provides an in-depth look into the process of persecuting and the problems that Mary and Elizabeth both faced.What is observable are the similarities that existed between the two persecutions and the process that persecutions followed in Marian and Elizabethan England. This project compares the persecutions of Mary and Elizabeth focusing on how they prepared England for the persecution of fellow English subjects, how and why martyrdom was applied, and how Mary and Elizabeth protected their persecutions and the English public's acceptance of the persecutions from martyrdom. This thesis focuses on the tumultuous circumstance of sixteenth century England, the power and influence of martyrdom and, ultimately how Mary and Elizabeth attempted to control and contain martyrdom. This thesis is divided into a discussion of each reign, with a focus on the primary documents defending the persecutions and countering martyrdom. The analysis of these sources illuminates the battle for public opinion and 111 public support by the martyrologies and anti-martyrologies, and that the history of the persecutions would be based on the martyrological or anti-martyrological accounts.IV