PALNI ILL Borrowing & Lending Statistics--Part 2

Submitted by vince on Tue, 10/31/2006 - 11:00am.

Following up on the July 2 posting on PALNI's OCLC ILL Borrowing and Lending statistics, here is some more information from Collette Mak, INCOLSA Director of Library Products, about Indiana's top OCLC ILL borrowers and lenders. As the chart shows, four PALNI libraries, Butler, DePauw, Indiana Wesleyan, and University of Indianapolis are among Indiana's top OCLC ILL lenders, while four PALNI libraries, Butler, DePauw, University of Indianapolis, and Wabash College, are on the list of top Indiana borrowers,

X X X X X X X     X X           X X X X X X X X    
Library Top Borrower Top Lender
Allen County Public X X
Ball State X
Butler Univ X
DePauw Univ X
Elkhart Public  
Evansville Public  
Indiana State Univ X
Indiana Univ X
IU South Bend X
IUPU Ft. Wayne X
IUPUI X
INCOLSA Bloomington X
INCOLSA Ft. Wayne X
INCOLSA Mishawaka X
INCOLSA Muncie X
INCOLSA New Albany X
INCOLSA Valparaiso X
Indiana Wesleyan Univ  
IMCPL (Indianapolis)  
Lake County Public  
Johnson County Public  
Monroe County JPublic  
Notre Dame X
Purdue X
Univ. of Indianapolis X
Valparaiso X
Wabash College X

The above chart is for the July 2005 through March, 2006 time period.

Collette also provided the following breakdown of Indiana ILL requests through OCLC by Library of Congress call number, presumably over the same time period.

Indiana ILL Requests by LC Classification

Collette's interpretation of this chart is that, "if you discount fiction, the use and LC ranges for non fiction are almost identical between publics and academics."

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