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

Tue Dec 4 08:46:02 EST 2007

We received an ILL request for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from a large university library in another state that charges us $15 per book.  Ad a librarian at a small college in Georgia, I'm intrigued by some of the requests we get.  We've got requests for Dissertation Abstracts from cities like Boston (maybe there are no univeristies there) and for Time Magazine articles from Chicago.  But I remember someone else on this listserv has us beat.  They were a library in Alaska that got a request for a New York Times article--from New York City.

As for Julia's theory that they get hit heavily because they're high up in the alphabet--when I arrived here I was surprised by how much we had been spending.  Then I noticed that a lot of requests before I came here (when student workers did the requesting) seemed to be going to Auburn, which was then an EMST library (which meant it would take longer) and charged.  Why?  Possibly becaus they're not far as the crow flies, but I suspect the main reason was their symbol: AAA.

Arthur Robinson, LaGrange College, GA (GLG)

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Campbell, Heather
Sent: Mon 12/3/2007 3:06 PM
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Subject: [SPAM] RE: [ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

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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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Julia Graham
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
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