Abstract
A survey of interlending activities in Dutch-speaking Belgium was taken in order to cordinate future developments. Data on a broad range of topics were collected. The processing of numerical data is outlined. The figures must be put in perspective, due to the presence of estimates. The investigation remains however the first serious attempt to get an overall picture of interlending in Flemish libraries.
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Abbreviations
- Cour:
-
courier service
- Fa:
-
fraction of requests related to actual figures
- Fax:
-
telefax
- Fe:
-
fraction of requests related to estimated data
- GL:
-
government library
- HL:
-
HOBU library, i.e. library of an institute for higher education outside the university
- ILL:
-
interlibrary lending
- m0 :
-
median of the original sample, i.e. before discarding outliers
- nla :
-
number of libraries giving useful data for the calculation of the stated figure
- nls :
-
number of libraries in the survey
- nra :
-
number of requests useful for the calculation of the given figure
- on :
-
number of outliers
- or :
-
range of outliers
- Pc:
-
current periodicals
- Per:
-
periodicals
- PL:
-
public library
- Pt:
-
terminated periodicals
- RL:
-
research library
- Sc :
-
sample standard deviation after discarding outliers
- Shut:
-
shuttle service organised by the Belgian university libraries
- SL:
-
special library
- Tel:
-
Telephone
- TLX:
-
telex
- U:
-
user(s)
- UL:
-
university library
- V:
-
volumes
- \(\bar X_c\) :
-
sample mean after discarding outliers
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Reyniers, P. Facts and figures on interlibrary lending in Dutch-speaking Belgium in 1989. Scientometrics 25, 59–76 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016847
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