The topic of this paper is a law formulated by Donald J. Urquhart on the use of scientific and technical (sci/tech) journals through interlibrary loan and central document delivery. The paper will be published in three parts. Part 1 discusses the genesis of the law and the probabilistic theory on which it is based. A primary aim of this part is to teach librarians about the probability distribu...

¶1 Citation checking has long formed an integral part of the law review publication process. Traditionally students have used print publications found in their library for this activity, but the increasing availability of legal sources in electronic formats, particularly image-based formats, has raised questions about this approach. To find out how these electronic versions fit into current law...

An examination of interlibrary loan statistics from 1986 through 1992 at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), State University of New York at Buffalo, revealed that the numbers of requests received via DOCLINE increased steadily over this period. Meanwhile, the numbers of requests received via OCLC rose from 1986 to 1989 but then declined steadily from 1989 to 1992. To understand and interpret th...

This Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) Resource List is a quick guide designed to help professionals find information related to the role of nutrition in learning and behavior in children. Opinions expressed in the publications do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Materials which are part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) collection hav...

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has developed a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to provide support for a new access‐based collection development philosophy. UNT Librarians realized the limitations of traditional assessment methods to gauge the impact of emerging acquisitions models such as demand‐driven acquisitions (DDA) and large interdisciplinary e‐book c...

Carolyn Caffrey Gardner is Information Literacy Coordinator at California State University, Dominguez Hills; e-mail: [email protected]. Gabriel J. Gardner is Reference & Instructional Librarian at California State University, Long Beach; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2017 Carolyn Caffrey Gardner and Gabriel J. Gardner, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/...

Kristin Calvert is Electronic Resources Librarian at Western Carolina University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Kristin Calvert, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Despite the prevalence of academic libraries adopting web-scale discovery tools, few studies have quantified their effect on the use of library collections. This study measures the...