TY - JOUR
T1 - Lost is found
T2 - The impact of a high-density shelving facility in a library's collection
AU - Atkins, Stephanie S.
AU - Weible, Cherié L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge the Research and Publication Committee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, which provided support for the completion of this research. In addition, the authors wish to thank Katherine Kopchok, their graduate student, for her work on this project.
PY - 2007/9/19
Y1 - 2007/9/19
N2 - A study conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) Library examines data from unfilled ILL requests to determine the status of materials housed in the Main Bookstacks of the library's collection. This study follows the research that was started in the original study conducted in 2002, "Needles in a Haystack: Using Interlibrary Loan Data to Identify Materials Missing from a Library's Collection." The results of the second study indicate that the use of a high-density storage facility had a positive impact on the retrieval rate of ILL materials from the Main Bookstacks. It also indicated that fill rates increased when over 770,000 items were removed from the Main Bookstacks resulting in improved shelving conditions for the library's collection. doi:10.1300/J105v31n03_03
AB - A study conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) Library examines data from unfilled ILL requests to determine the status of materials housed in the Main Bookstacks of the library's collection. This study follows the research that was started in the original study conducted in 2002, "Needles in a Haystack: Using Interlibrary Loan Data to Identify Materials Missing from a Library's Collection." The results of the second study indicate that the use of a high-density storage facility had a positive impact on the retrieval rate of ILL materials from the Main Bookstacks. It also indicated that fill rates increased when over 770,000 items were removed from the Main Bookstacks resulting in improved shelving conditions for the library's collection. doi:10.1300/J105v31n03_03
KW - Collection inventory
KW - Collection maintenance
KW - High-density shelving
KW - ILL requests
KW - ILL statistics
KW - OPAC accuracy
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U2 - 10.1300/J105v31n03_03
DO - 10.1300/J105v31n03_03
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34748885528
SN - 0146-2679
VL - 31
SP - 15
EP - 32
JO - Collection Management
JF - Collection Management
IS - 3
ER -