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4-Year Institutions With the Most Interlibrary Loans, 2014-15

By Chronicle Staff

October 1, 2017

Libraries that lend many materials to users at other institutions through interlibrary loan tend to also borrow many items for their users that way. A dozen public institutions and 15 private nonprofit institutions were among the top 20 in their sectors both for providing and receiving materials through interlibrary loan.

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Public institutions

Rank	Institution	Materials provided
1.	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	134,538
2.	U. of Colorado at Boulder	114,172
3.	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	108,064
4.	Ohio State U.	90,395
5.	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	82,869
6.	Colorado State U. at Fort Collins	76,538
7.	Pennsylvania State U. (18 campuses)	76,108
8.	U. of Wyoming	70,788
9.	U. of Missouri at Columbia	66,516
10.	Michigan State U.	63,301
11.	U. of Oregon	62,518
12.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	56,653
13.	U. of Rhode Island	53,073
14.	Ohio U. (6 campuses)	52,889
15.	Illinois State U.	51,298
16.	U. of Oklahoma at Norman	48,656
17.	Rutgers U. at New Brunswick	48,461
18.	U. of Washington	48,011
19.	U. of Pittsburgh (4 campuses)	46,545
20.	U. of Iowa	45,028
	Median for 657 institutions that provided materials	2,414

Rank	Institution	Materials received
1.	Ohio State U.	89,104
2.	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	66,959
3.	U. of Washington	63,763
4.	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	61,302
5.	U. of Missouri at Columbia	55,330
6.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	53,306
7.	Texas A&M U. at College Station	53,186
8.	Rutgers U. at New Brunswick	52,849
9.	U. of Oregon	52,044
10.	U. of Connecticut (4 campuses)	50,097
11.	Illinois State U.	49,138
12.	Texas Tech U.	43,099
13.	U. of Maryland at College Park	42,781
14.	U. of Illinois at Chicago	41,364
15.	Ohio U. (6 campuses)	40,660
16.	Pennsylvania State U. (18 campuses)	39,870
17.	Wright State U.	38,863
18.	Indiana U.-Purdue U. at Indianapolis	38,202
19.	Colorado State U. at Fort Collins	38,109
20.	Arizona State U. (5 campuses)	37,704
	Median for 670 institutions that received materials	2,285

Private nonprofit institutions

Rank	Institution	Materials provided
1.	U. of Pennsylvania	87,733
2.	Yale U.	56,785
3.	Columbia U.	52,335
4.	Cornell U.	51,513
5.	Johns Hopkins U.	51,446
6.	American U.	50,770
7.	U. of Chicago	50,318
8.	Harvard U.	50,189
9.	Georgetown U.	48,383
10.	Dartmouth College	48,211
11.	Princeton U.	47,263
12.	Baylor U.	44,848
13.	Northwestern U.	40,359
14.	Brown U.	37,326
15.	Tufts U.	35,082
16.	Washington U. in St. Louis	34,394
17.	Amherst College	32,797
18.	U. of Notre Dame	30,801
19.	Duke U.	29,262
20.	Emory U.	28,960
	Median for 1,136 institutions that provided materials	729

Rank	Institution	Materials received
1.	U. of Pennsylvania	96,765
2.	Yale U.	64,816
3.	Harvard U.	51,839
4.	George Washington U.	51,619
5.	Columbia U.	50,206
6.	U. of Chicago	45,526
7.	Northwestern U.	44,826
8.	Cornell U.	44,568
9.	Washington U. in St. Louis	41,675
10.	Princeton U.	41,669
11.	Johns Hopkins U.	39,505
12.	Duke U.	32,989
13.	DePaul U.	32,912
14.	Brown U.	32,805
15.	U. of Notre Dame	32,512
16.	Boston College	31,979
17.	Dartmouth College	29,899
18.	Northeastern U. and its Global Network	28,958
19.	School of the Art Institute of Chicago	27,886
20.	Georgetown U.	26,071
	Median for 1,182 institutions that received materials	812

Note: Interlibrary loans that were “provided” include all filled requests for documents and other materials to other libraries. Materials may be delivered in physical or electronic or digital form. Interlibrary loans that were “received” include all filled requests for materials from other libraries or commercial services. Colleges whose figures for interlibrary loans represent more than one campus are noted. Colleges whose overall library circulations were under 25,000 were excluded.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data