Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study interlibrary loan service, concerning usage, satisfaction, the needed forms of interlibrary loan service and problems of interlibrary loan service of Burapha University Library during July-September 2005. The sample consisted of 120 users. The research tools were a multiple- choice questionnaire and an indepth-interview. Research data was analyzed by using percentile, means, and standard deviation. The findings were summarized as followings: 1. The status of interlibrary loan service users: it was found that a majority of the users were graduate and undergraduate students, instructors and researchers in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Technology and Health Science. 2. The interlibrary loan service using condition: most users used interlibrary loan service for researching and thesis conducting. The highest amount of the requested interlibrary loan service was 1-5 items per time. The domestic Web OPAC was the main retrieved source. Most of the interlibrary loan types were photocopying of journal articles, receiving the document by regular mail and also being informed when their document came by telephone. The regular time to receive a document took 8-14 days. The expense of the service was 20-100 baht at a time. 3. The highest satisfaction on using interlibrary loan service were the service of librarians, the convenience of the service place, the quality of the received document, the informed method when the document arrived, and the efficiency of Web OPAC, repectively. 4. The most problems in using library loan service were high cost of interlibrary loan service from overseas, lacking updated tools for searching information resources, inadequacy of computers for searching information resource, late receipt of the interlibrary loan document. 5. The highest needed forms of interlibrary loan service were the fast request process with in 1-4 hours, the document scan service and the files transfer by e-mail, the request filled out form via website, the scanned document stored in diskette/CD format, and the delivery service directly to user's office, respectively.