[ILL-L] Local Holdings Information -- How Much Do You Use It?!

[Cecelia N. Boone]

I'd like to ask the readers of this listserv to help me learn more about how
ILL staff use local holdings information for serials (i.e. what we used to
call Union List of Serials holdings) in resource sharing today.  The common
thread on this listserv is, of course, that we use OCLC WorldCat Resource
Sharing to handle interlibrary loan/resource sharing requests, and I’d like
to ask for the benefit of our common experience.

 

Please contact me directly ( <mailto:c-boon at umn.edu> c-boon at umn.edu) with
your responses to any or all of the following questions by Sept. 29:

 

o   Can you provide examples of improvements in ILL fill rates and
turnaround times that result from using Local Holdings information – rather
than relying solely on the library’s institution-level holding code?  I’ve
heard of examples of 30%-60% improvements for some institutions, but I’d
like to have specific examples to share.

o   What do you see as the advantages for both borrowers and lenders of
using this Local Holdings Record information?  What drawbacks have you
encountered?

o   Do you use local holding information that’s provided for both serials
and non-serials – or just for serials.

o   If a library owns both print and e-versions of a serial, do you prefer
that they attach all the local holding information to a single bibliographic
record (often, the bib. record for the print version) – or list the
appropriate holding information on separate bibliographic records that are
created for the print, electronic, microform, (etc.) versions of the
publication?.

o   What:

§  do you see as the primary problems working with local holdings
information as it is presented in OCLC today?

·         do you see as possible answers to these problems?

§  are the primary uses that library staff and end users make of the local
holding information that you retrieve in OCLC WorldCat (e.g., to find
potential lenders for ILL requests, to serve as a location finding aid for
patrons willing to travel to another location to read a publication, as a
source of serials holdings data to be loaded into a library’s local catalog,
to serve as the basis for a separate regional or topically based union list,
etc.)?

o   And, finally, what:

§  do you see as the future for local holding information as it appears in
OCLC WorldCat (e.g., continue as it is now, be replaced
by_______________________?)?

§  message would you want to share with a group of library administrators
and others interested in resource sharing if you had them as a captive
audience and wanted to help them understand the benefits and possible
pitfalls of using local holdings information in ILL.

 

I will be happy to share responses through a message to this listserv, and
PowerPoints of my presentation are to be available on the website of NISO
(the National Information Standards Organization) following the
“Collaborative Library <http://www.niso.org/news/events/2008/resshar08/>
Resource Sharing: Standards, Developments, and New Models for Cooperating”
seminar Oct. 6-7.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Cecelia

 

Cecelia N. Boone, Asst to the Director

MINITEX Library Information Network

(minitex.umn.edu)

University of Minnesota

15 Andersen Library

222 21st Ave. S.

Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439

Office:  612-624-6353

Wats:  800-462-5348

Fax:  612-624-4508

 

 

 

 

 

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