One hundred fifty academic libraries were surveyed to determine if professorial note photocopying services were a factor in any decline in use of reserve by faculty at their institutions. Eighty-six responses were received. While they did not feel that use of library reserve services were being jeopardized, respondents indicated a number of…

Developed in response to issues raised about the circulation of bound periodicals, the cost of photocopies, and the condition of the photocopiers, this report of the Joint Committee to Study Library Periodical Services at the Virginia Commonwealth University libraries recommends goals for periodicals services for both campuses of the university.…

The purpose of this study is to provide data for making decisions on whether to buy or borrow research materials and whether to use fee-based suppliers or interlibrary loan for obtaining photocopied materials. The study is based on 1991 information collected in a survey of 76 U.S. and Canadian research libraries. The cost per transaction is broken…

This study was designed to examine the degree of success of two current programs of the International Federation of Library Associations--Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) and Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC)--as they are seen from the point of view of one library. The data analyzed were culled from 237 interlibrary loan requests…

Responses of 62 member libraries from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to a survey conducted by the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) about library policies and practices related to the fair use of unpublished manuscript materials indicates that recent court decisions and the current debate over fair use affect library…