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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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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.

Public institutions

RankInstitutionMaterials 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

RankInstitutionMaterials 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

RankInstitutionMaterials 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

RankInstitutionMaterials 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

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A version of this article appeared in the October 6, 2017, issue.
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