The launching of ILLiad at Virginia Tech on March 17, 1997 enabled us to examine a variety of statistical data with three goals in mind:
From time to time over the years we have posted some of this data to listservs devoted to interlibrary loan. Responses from readers indicate that wider dissemination of the data could be useful to others wishing to compare ILL operations at different institutions. Thus, we have collected these brief reports about ILL at Virginia Tech for easy access. Also included here are historical announcements about the launching of ILLiad services and a published article about borrowers' electronic delivery preferences.
| Topic | Description |
| ILLiad Announcement (4/23/1997) | ILLiad was launched at Virginia Tech on March 17, 1997. |
| Electronic Delivery Begins (7/11/1997) | ILLiad's automated electronic delivery was launched on July 4, 1997. |
| ILL Automation Saves Time (11/20/1997) | Automating ILL saves a lot of staff time. Here's why. |
| ILLiad 1st Anniversary (3/20/1998) | Some statistics about ILL borrowing after 1 year of ILLiad use. |
| Electronic Delivery (4/4/1998) | Experiences during the first several months of ILLiad's automated electronic photocopy delivery. |
| Electronic Delivery Preferences(39 KB PDF file) | The majority of borrowers in 1998 preferred paper copy, not electronic. Article published February 2001. |
| ILL Role is Growing (8/31/1998) | ILL borrowing grew rapidly despite the increased availability of electronic resources. |
| Benefits of Automating ILL (11/23/1999) | There are many benefits from automating the ILL process. |
| Borrowing a Book More Than Once (4/28/1999) | There is no reason a borrower should not borrow a book more than once. |
| ILL Overdues (7/26/2000) | Overdue ILL books can be frustrating, but Tech does about as well as others in returning books on time. |
| Increasing Lending Fill Rates (8/15/2000) | There are no simple solutions to increasing lending fill rates |
| Impact of Distant Learners (9/1/2000) | Distant learners have a large impact on ILL and document delivery services. |
| Turnaround Time and Lenders (1/26/2001) | Borrowing turnaround time improves thanks to lenders. |
| How Many Lenders Do We Need? (2/11/2001) | It takes many hundreds of libraries to meet the information needs of researchers at Virginia Tech. |
| Borrowing Journals is
Increasing (3/26/2001) Borrowing Journals is Increasing (follow-up 3/28/2001) |
Despite the Internet and widespread availability of electronic journals, the demand for borrowing recently published journal articles continues to increase. |
| VIVA Benefits ILL Turnaround Time (5/1/2001) | Turnaround time for items borrowed from VIVA libraries is significantly shorter than the average for all libraries. |
| Peak Loads and Request Limits (6/8/2001) | Is there any justification for limiting borrower's requests? |
| Serving Distant Learners (7/13/2001) | An update on the large impact of distant learners on ILL and document delivery services. |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2001 (8/2/2001) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2001 |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2002 (9/24/2002) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2002 |
| Too Many Requests? Of Course Not! (7/31/2003) | A no limits policy and automation benefit a distance learner with 1,899 requests. |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2003 (8/13/2003) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2003 |
| Use of Electronic Delivery by Lending Libraries (2/16/2004) | Patterns of use of electronic delivery of photocopies by lending libraries. |
| Use of ILLiad by Libraries that Lend to Virginia Tech (4/9/2004) | Most items borrowed by Virginia Tech come from libraries that are using ILLiad. |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2004 (8/13/2004) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2004 |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2005 (9/5/2005) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2005 |
| More People Need More Lending Libraries More Than Ever (5/9/2006) | Despite the growth of the Internet, in 2005 more students, faculty and staff at Virginia Tech were borrowing from more libraries than ever before. |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2006 (8/4/2006) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2006 |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2007 (7/23/2007) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2007 |
| ILLiad Extended Campus Services FY2008 (8/22/2008) | Data on ILLiad services to the Extended Campus FY2008 |
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