We keep our in-house use separate from interlibrary loan statistics. It somewhat depends on what’s possible with your ILS. With ours, it is very easy to track in-house usage. Our problem is that patrons are more likely to reshelve periodicals than they are books, especially in the Current Periodicals room. We shelve our periodicals by title, so there’s no call number to figure out. So I do think our in house usage is under represented in our stats.

Denise

Denise Pakala

Associate Librarian for Technical Services

Covenant Theological Seminary

12330 Conway Rd.

St. Louis, MO 63141

denise.pakala@covenantseminary.edu

314-392-4104

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Subject: [SERIALST] Do you keep interlibrary statistics?

Hello,

Do you keep statistics for interlibrary loan usage separated from in-house use? With money being tight, we rely very heavily on statistics everyday to cancel titles that aren't being used very much.

We've always kept one use statistic for periodicals, regardless of if they are used for Interlibrary Loan lending or in-house.

I'm wondering if it's common for people to include interlibrary loan lending statistics with their in-house statistics.

Thank you!

Jason Skoog

Archivist and Systems Librarian
Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
608-796-3262

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