Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply

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Volume 6 Number 1 1995

Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Information Supply
Volume 6, Number 1; 1995
ISSN: 1072-303X

Editorial: The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword: OCLC's Microcomputer Prices
  by Leslie R Morris............................................1-3

                                NEWS

The Tokyo Exit on the Information Superhighway Is "JapanLink"...5-7

Record Year Underlines the British Library Support for
Innovation......................................................9-10

ILL-List Conspectus
  by Suzanne S Rice.............................................11-16

World Bank Development Center Adjustment Operation Life Line to Nigerian
Universities: Impact on Information Demand and Supply in the University of
Agriculture, Makurdi Library
  by Vincent Nnamdi Ozowa.......................................17-27
Abstract: An overview of the reasons for the World Bank credit facility of
120 million US dollars to Nigerian Universities is given. The National
Universities Commission (NUC) - the body responsible for distributing the
funds - is blamed for stifling the project implementation. An attempt is
made to see how far the credit facility has solved long standing
university library problems like poor quality and quantity of books and
journals, lack of equipment and development  and training of
technologically obselete library staff. The impact of the credit facility
on information demand and supply in University of Agriculture, Makurdi
Library (which mirrors the circumstances of some third generation
university libraries in Nigeria) is examined to find out if the World Bank
credit life line is a palliative or panacea to the problem of information
needs of university library users.

LIVING TEXTBOOK on the INTERNET: A Call to Collaborate
  by Dieter Ebner...............................................29-39
Abstract: The urgency to develop a world-wide information system, replacing
existing journals and books, is demonstrated. Its contents can be changed,
commented and updated by everyone, under certain restrictions, and is
therefore called a "LIVING TEXTBOOK". According to the interest of the
reader non-relevant information can be screened off. He can immediately
find out what has already been done in a particular subject. The refereeing
system becomes more democratic: The reader can choose the judgement of the
referee of his choice.

Overnight Document Delivery Service
  by Barabara M Koehler and Chung Sook Kim......................41-44

Patron Initiated Interlibrary Loan Through FirstSearch: The Experience of
the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
  by Kimber L Fender............................................45-48

Evaluating a Corporate Library Collection
  by Lucia Green................................................49-61

Channel One as a Current Events Medium for Secondary Students
  by Rebecca Castle Cramer......................................63-82

M.L.S. to Excess? Degree Requirements for ILL
  by W C Divens.................................................83-88
Abstract: A long and divisive debate ensued on the ILL-L listserver
concerning the requirement that some institutions place on the management
of interlibrary loan: specifically that the manager of ILL be a librarian
holding a Master's Degree in Library Science. This article attempts to
show, using published studies and references, why this requirement may be
outmoded in the modern academic library. While it is expected that the
debate will not be settled or even dampened by this publication, it is
hoped that some of the evidence presented may at least cause some to
consider the issue in terms that are not absolute.

Why You Do Not Need and MLS to Work in ILL
  by Lorin M Hawley.............................................89-94

Book Reviews....................................................95-106

Kappa's Interlibrary Loan World.................................107

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Transcribed By angus Nicolson
18th March 1996


Submitted by: j.wood  (cijs27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk)
               Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:49:59 +0000 (GMT)