This article describes undergraduate use of OhioLINK, Ohio's patron-initiated interlibrary loan system. Undergraduate requesting patterns from Ohio's various colleges and universities were examined as well as other data, such as undergraduate use of their local collections, institution size, and library size. Correlations were calculated in order to determine which of these factors were associated with high and low OhioLINK use by undergraduates; the results varied according to school type (college vs. university). Supplementing this overall study was a detailed survey of students and faculty at Wittenberg University who had made OhioLINK requests. The conclusions have implications for cooperative collection development plans.
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Kathy Schulz (2001) studied this question.