Alphabetical order as a defect in the creation of oclc lender strings
Sowards S.W.
1991
Journal of Interlibrary Loan and Information Supply
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10.1300/J472v01n04_06
The OCLC interlibrary loan subsystem allows ILL workers to direct borrowing requests to target libraries in a specified order. Study of a sample of lender strings taken from interlibrary loan requests submitted on OCLC to two liberal arts college libraries shows a tendency by ILL workers to select and enter lending library symbols in alphabetical order. This tendency, while inadvertent, nevertheless can create an unfair burden for libraries with certain symbols and works against the most equitable distribution of ILL requests among libraries. For the good of the ILL system, ILL workers need to avoid this error. © 1991 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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