Miller J
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1997 Jan;85(1):11-5.
Statistics obtained from the Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors (AAHSLD) member libraries were studied during 1991/92 to determine whether the size of the primary client pool is a better predictor of a library's interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing than is collection size. In libraries with collections of fewer than 70,000 serial and monograph titles, size of the client base explained 25% of the variation in ILL borrowing. No measure of collection size helped explain a greater percentage of the variability. This relationship was not found in libraries with collections of more than 70,000 titles. Further research into the predictors of ILL borrowing volume in the relatively controlled environment of the OhioLINK system is proposed.
对1991/92年期间从学术健康科学图书馆主任协会（AAHSLD）成员图书馆获得的统计数据进行了研究，以确定主要客户群的规模是否比馆藏规模更能预测图书馆的馆际互借（ILL）借阅情况。在馆藏少于70,000种连续出版物和专著的图书馆中，客户群规模解释了ILL借阅变化的25%。没有任何馆藏规模指标能解释更大比例的变异性。在馆藏超过70,000种的图书馆中未发现这种关系。建议在俄亥俄州图书馆与信息网络（OhioLINK）系统相对可控的环境中，进一步研究ILL借阅量的预测因素。
