Explosive ill growth at the university of montana: A case study

This article explores the causes and the consequences of rapid growth in Interlibrary Loan use at the University of Montana between 1984-1990. For many years the state university library had emphasized traditional collection development and ownership. Since 1984, however, slow attrition of the acquisition budget, coupled with serials inflation, and a concomitant development of new electronic information sources, has forced a new emphasis —access, resource sharing, and temporaiy ownership. The result has been a steady and rapid growth of the Interlibrary Loan service. From.