THE BRITISH LIBRARY DOCUMENT SUPPLY CENTRE
Source of requests - UK & Eire customers
Facts and Figures
Demand |
1993-94 |
1998-99 | |||
UK requests received |
2,843,884 |
3,082,062 | |||
Overseas requests received |
848,301 |
1,198,942 | |||
Total requests received |
3,692,185 |
4,281,004 | |||
© fee requests received UK |
- |
90,571 | |||
© fee requests received overseas |
- |
427,239 | |||
UK requests sent overseas |
8,704 |
5,676 | |||
Total number of customers |
15,653 |
20,567 | |||
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Methods of requesting |
| ||||
Postal |
34.2% |
12.5% | |||
ARTTel (computer to computer) |
52.8% |
43.4% | |||
E-mail/ARTWeb |
- |
29.5% | |||
Telex |
1.7% |
- | |||
Premium services |
3.5% |
4.9% | |||
Database hosts |
3.5% |
3.0% | |||
Fax |
4.3% |
3.9% | |||
Other |
- |
0.4% |
2000 L.I.S.T. online: NHS library statistics