What are the Expectations of Interlibrary Loan and Electronic Reserves During an Economic Crisis?

The Development of Resource Sharing, Scholarly Communication, and the Role of Publishers in the Context of Academic Libraries

“…Libraries routinely respond to rounds of budget cuts with journal cancellation projects. David McCaslin (2010) warns that "decreased book purchases or journal subscriptions could cause a significant increase in interlibrary loan or document delivery requests" (229). Judith M. Nixon (2010) described three journal cancellation projects, due to budget cuts and serials inflation, at Purdue University, having taken place in 1992, 1997, and 2009.…”

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 73

“…How will the economic crisis affect ILL and document supply? An optimistic article suggests that cuts in acquisitions will lead to more use of the service and one useful specific point is that librarians need to “take a harder look at copyright clearance and fair use” particularly in relation to electronic course reserves – but I would suggest also more generally for electronic material held under licence (McCaslin, 2010).…”

Expanding services in a shrinking economy: desktop document delivery in a dental school library

“…In the United States, while some authors report decreases in ILL due to factors such as increased access to electronic journals [3][4][5][6], others have seen a slight decrease followed by a large increase in requests or have simply remained on a trajectory of increased requests for ILL services. The increases are attributed to cancellation of ''big deal'' packages [6], new programs added to curricula [5,7,8], materials budget cuts [9,10], addition of document delivery service for library-owned materials [1,11,12], increased marketing for ILL services by the library [1,13,14], or discontinuation of fees for document delivery service [7].…”