[ILL-L] Borrow Direct program

[Carol Jones]

Borrow Direct is a consortium of seven institutions in the 
northeast--Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, University 
of Pennsylvania, and Yale.  We started a pilot project with three 
institutions (Columbia, Penn, and Yale) in late 1999 and added four 
additional members a couple of years later.  At the present time, 
there are no plans to expand further.

We borrow/lend books only, batch ship loans and returns via UPS, and 
achieve an 85% fill rate and four-business-day turnaround time 
overall.  I know Borrow Direct is a very successful and popular 
service here at Yale and I believe that's true at all of our partner 
institutions.

Carol Jones


At 03:33 PM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
>I read good things about the Borrow Direct program, does anyone belong
>to it? Thanks, Ed.
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Carol L. Jones
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