[ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

[Julia Graham]

At 06:59 AM 12/1/2007, you wrote:
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>Jeanine Weber wrote
>It would also be nice if their borrowing would be somewhat equal to 
>their lending.  Like if they were to borrow for free 500 items in a 
>year, but only loan out 75, that wouldn't seem quite fair.  It's not 
>stated in the agreement, but you would hope LVIS libraries wouldn't 
>take advantage of the group.
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>I think this is something that might be beyond one's control.  I 
>would love to lend more, but that all depends on other libraries 
>needing what we have.  I never refuse a request unless it can't be 
>filled, but it all depends on the borrowing libraries to put me on their list.

Agreed.  We also have cases where we get hit CONSTANTLY by some LVIS 
libraries, and we would actually borrow very few from them.  The 
reason?  We go to our consortial lenders first - we fill about 56% of 
our loans from other Cal State University Libraries, so LVIS 
libraries are much further down in my custom holdings, but since we 
fall higher in the alphabet (CHU), we get hit quite heavily by other 
LVIS libraries.
It also depends on a library's collections.  We are heavy in the 
natural resources and nursing, so we tend to get a lot of requests 
for those type of materials, but the libraries requesting may not 
have as much music, art, and psychology stuff as we need.

I've moved LVIS up in my article custom holdings, so that's 
helped.  But there are a variety of reasons for why you might lend 
way more than you borrow from a particular LVIS library.

It's the libraries that are constant abusers of our due dates (to tie 
into another thread) that come to us over and over again that tweak 
my beanie a bit.

Julia


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