[ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

Mon Dec 3 22:27:39 EST 2007

Maybe we need a new group for those of us who are usually net borrowers, but would like to lend more - LVVIS - libraries very, very interested in sharing :-)

I do most of the things mentioned below and it is amazing that even though we are a small library, for certain subject areas and periodical titles we get multiple requests.

Judith A. Koveleskie
Periodicals Librarian
Seton Hill University
Reeves Memorial Library
Greensburg, PA  15601

724-838-7828

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Subject: RE: [ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

As of two years ago, I was a net lender (all groups -- not just LVIS), but last year and this year, I have become a net borrower. I'm not sure why I've gone from 2 to 1 as a net lender to 2 to 1 as a net borrower. Apparently, I've done too well at getting the word out about ILL.

As for some of the problems, people have mentioned --
1.  I put the EMST libraries at the top of my custom holdings groups, so I no longer mistakenly request from them, but it also means I can no longer let OCLC "suggest" lender strings for me.
2.  I go to in-state libraries first -- always.  I try to go to smaller libraries first and save the large universities for last. We are a small academic library, so I am going to my peers first.
3.  I created a regional LVIS custom holdings group (all the states surrounding us) and put it before my main LVIS group. Maybe I should do more regional LVIS groups, but I spend most of my custom holdings efforts on ArieLVIS groups.
4.  When choosing from the main LVIS list, I try to go to the bottom of the alphabet first and then zig zag up and down, mixing it up. I also try to avoid cross-continental book mailings, but not everyone has their state in their institution name, so....
5.  I try to avoid relying on the same libraries again and again, but sometimes the strengths of their specific collections make them the best libraries to borrow from -- especially in reference to specific patrons -- my 17th-century-British-theater doctoral student, my future paleontologist, and my plastic canvas addict.
6.  I take the "favored lender" status as a compliment -- I must be doing something right or they wouldn't be asking again and again and again.

Linda

Linda Celet Bane
Interlibrary Loan (PWS/PWSA)
Mary F. Shipper Library/LRC
Potomac State College of WVU
Keyser, WV  26726-2697
phone: (304)788-6903
fax: (304)788-6946
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>>> "Campbell, Heather" <HEATHERC at coj.net> Monday, December 03, 2007 3:06 PM >>>
We have some consortia and state referral centers who've apparently
taken a shine to us- though we're in another corner of the country.  And
we have some pay-for-loan libraries that like us too.   They don't
necessarily request from nearer to home; they couldn't.  I can't believe
the libraries in their neck of the woods wouldn't have copies of The
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Atlas Shrugged.

The standing joke/observation around here during the winter months is
they come to us because they want a thawed out copy of the title.  :>)
Save one state-Hawaii- we get requests from every state in the union;
our pet theory about why Hawaii doesn't come to us (and it can't be
because our loan period is too short (60 days)), it that their books,
like ours are thawed out.  :>) again.

Heather Campbell
Special Services ~ Interlibrary Loan and Books By Mail
Jacksonville Public Library
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
ill at coj.net    904-630-2985

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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

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.

        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

        Judith A. Koveleskie, MLIS, MA
        Periodicals Librarian
        Seton Hill University
        Reeves Memorial Library
        1 Seton Hill Drive
        Greensburg, PA 15601-1548
        kovelesk at setonhill.edu
        724-838-7828

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