was [ILL-L] LVIS Borrowing vs. Lending

Tue Dec 4 09:45:11 EST 2007

We get a surprising number of requests considering how small we are and
how small the size of our holdings.  I am sure it is because of our
symbol ALT.  Not quite as close to the beginning as AAA, but still an A
for the first letter.  :-)  

I know that there are several reasons people make requests like the ones
mentioned below, but I think that not being aware of postage costs plays
a part.  We had one librarian that would use ILL for personal requests
for material that we knew he could check out of the local public
library.  He said that this was easier and we didn't have to pay for it.
He could not get it through his head that, yes, somebody DOES pay for
it.  

Another factor is how nice some libraries are.  I do always use our
consortium first, then instate, then closest in radius, but if I have to
go very far to find something, I confess, I find that Jacksonville
Public and Daytona Beach (Volusia County) are two of the best libraries
I have dealt with in the 10 years I've been here.  

Joyce Adams Brannan

Technical Services Librarian

Julia Tutwiler Library, Station 12

University of West Alabama

(205) 652-3677

jbrannan at uwa.edu

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