Interlibrary loan in Türkiye: interlibrary loan tracking system (KITS)

IF 2.1 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information Discovery and Delivery Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI:10.1108/idd-11-2022-0117

Rumeysa Çölden Akgül, Güleda Doğan

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Purpose This study aims to evaluate the current situation of the interlibrary loan in Türkiye using interlibrary loan tracking system raw data (2008–2019). Data was analyzed geographically to reveal the effect of geographical distance on the collaboration and thematically to identify the prominent areas/topics in the requests. In addition, the requests were evaluated in terms of the type and age of the university, the size of the collection and the number of library users. Design/methodology/approach The effect of geographical distance on the collaboration was revealed using VOSviewer. The place numbers and titles of the requests were used for thematic analysis, which was performed using Flourish and VOSviewer. Statistical tests were conducted with SPSS to investigate the effects of factors such as university age and type. Findings Geographic analysis revealed that the prominent regions are Marmara, Central Anatolia and Aegean Regions, respectively. The fact that these regions host Türkiye’s largest cities with the highest number of universities has been effective in achieving this result. The results of the thematic analysis are in accordance with the literature. Almost half of the requests are from Social Sciences, Language and Literature, History and Law. While the effects of collection size and the number of library users have relatively insignificant effects on requests, age and university type were found to be more relevant. Originality/value Interlibrary loan data of this size has not been the subject of an evaluation before in Türkiye. Hence, the results obtained have the potential to influence relevant policies and decisions on the subject. On the other hand, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, bibliographic mapping was used for the first time on interlibrary loan data.

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土耳其馆际借阅：馆际借阅跟踪系统（KITS）

目的利用馆际互借跟踪系统的原始数据(2008-2019年)，对我国图书馆馆际互借现状进行评估。对数据进行地理分析，揭示地理距离对协作的影响，并从主题上确定请求中的突出领域/主题。此外，还根据大学的类型和年龄、馆藏的规模和图书馆用户的数量对这些请求进行了评估。设计/方法/方法使用VOSviewer揭示地理距离对协作的影响。使用thrive和VOSviewer对请求的位置编号和标题进行主题分析。采用SPSS软件进行统计检验，探讨大学年龄、类型等因素的影响。地理分析显示，突出的地区分别是马尔马拉、安纳托利亚中部和爱琴海地区。事实上，这些地区拥有乌克兰最大的城市和最多的大学，这一事实有效地实现了这一结果。主题分析的结果与文献一致。近一半的申请来自社会科学、语言文学、历史和法律。虽然馆藏规模和图书馆用户数量对请求的影响相对较小，但年龄和大学类型的影响更大。原创性/价值这种规模的馆际互借数据在 rkiye以前从未被评估过。因此，获得的结果有可能影响有关这一主题的政策和决定。另一方面，据作者所知，文献制图首次用于馆际互借数据。

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Information Discovery and Delivery INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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5.40

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4.80%

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期刊介绍： Information Discovery and Delivery covers information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organisations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians. The journal publishes research and practice which explores the digital information supply chain ie transport, flows, tracking, exchange and sharing, including within and between libraries. It is also interested in digital information capture, packaging and storage by ‘collectors’ of all kinds. Information is widely defined, including but not limited to: Records, Documents, Learning objects, Visual and sound files, Data and metadata and , User-generated content.