Wypożyczenia międzybiblioteczne w Polsce... w świetle badań ankietowych
Interlibrarian borrowings in Poland in the light of survey research

Summary/Abstract: Interlibrarian Borrowings (IB) is one of the basic services allowing readers access to specialist literature inaccessible locally. In order to examine the condition of the IB in Poland in July and August 2016 there was a pilot survey conducted among 128 libraries cooperating with the Pedagogical University Main Library throughout two academic years 2014/2015- 2015/2016. The survey consisted of 17 questions. The statistics available on the interaktywnie.com website, where the survey was located, noted 95 "unique views" of the form. The surveys were filled in by 50 respondents. As results from the responses, the most important problems of the IB in Poland are non-uniform regulations, different level of using modern technologies in the realization of interlibrary orders and lack of a national system of interlibrary borrowings. The attempt to create such a system based on the NUKAT catalogue has not yet been realized. The Academica, working since 2014, did not revolutionize the system in Poland due to its numerous limitations. The survey results indicate that there is a need for action leading to integrating the librarian society dealing with IB.

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