AN ASSESSMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC LIBRARIES’ ILL BORROWING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL’S UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Through existing data collection and a survey distributed to North Carolina public libraries (NCPLs), this study aims to uncover the barriers for North Carolina public libraries’ Interlibrary Loan with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Existing data collection will reveal how much material, what format, and what type NCPLs are requesting, and how much is being delivered to them. The survey questions, informed by the articles mentioned in the Literature Review, inquire as to the status of ILL within the respondent’s NCPL, how they currently support patrons pursuing self-guided education, and how they foresee the future of ILL at their location. This information culminates to give the University Libraries a fuller picture of the barriers in NCPL ILL and ideas/methods on how to assist NCPLs.