1. Branin Joseph, Frances Groen, and Suzanne Thorin, “The Changing Nature of Collection Management in Research,” Association of Research Libraries, http://arl.cni.org/collect/changing.html, 1999.
2. The 26 Illinois Libraries participating in this study, with OCLC lending/borrowing data available from 7/96 to 5/97, are: Augustana College, Bradley University, Chicago Public Library, DePaul University, Eastern Illinois University, Elmhurst College, Governors State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois State Library, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Loyola University of Chicago, Millikin University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, Dominican University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Springfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Western Illinois University, and Wheaton College.
3. More information concerning the Illinois Cooperative Collection Management Program is found at http://libws66.lib.niu.edu/ccm/index.html.
4. ILLINET resource sharing code found at http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/library/ill_code.html details how libraries within the organization are encouraged to provide free copies of journal articles.
5. Two representative articles are: Sanville, Thomas J. and Barbara A. Winters, “A Method out of the Madness: Ohiolink’s Collaborative Response to the Serials Crisis (Paper Presented at the 1997 NASIG Conference),” Serials Librarian. 34 (1998), 125–39 and Kingma, B.R. “The Economics of Access versus Ownership: the Costs and Benefits of Access to Scholarly Articles via Interlibrary Loan and Journal Subscriptions,” Journal of Library Administration, 26 (1998), 145–162.