[ILL-L] FYI- Getting around age deflections

[Campbell, Heather]

I'm doing Lending while the regular staff is out on leave.  I noticed a
request that came in without an OCLC number and without a publication
date.  I thought that was odd.  I checked the OCLC record and it was a
just published book.  This afternoon, I saw the same thing- a request
where the OCLC number and publication date was carefully removed before
the request was sent- from the same library. From now on- if there's no
OCLC number and no date, we'll assume that the lending library is trying
to get books our policy says we do not loan and mark it as a policy
problem.  I have deep reservations about lending to this library ever
again. This raises serious trust issues; if they do this and have so
little respect for lending libraries, can they even be trusted to return
our books?  I'm sharing this so that other libraries that use age
deflection will be warned that it won't catch everything; if a borrowing
library really wants to get around it, they can.

 

 

Heather Campbell

Special Services~Interlibrary Loan and Books By Mail

Jacksonville Public Library (OCLC symbol:JPL)

Jacksonville, FL 32202-3505

904-630-2986

ill at coj.net

 

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