[ILL-L] borrowing current year materials

[Campbell, Heather]

Our ILL management system tags requests with a copyright of this year
for cancellation. So, if it has a copyright of 2007, we can't fill the
request. Period. It's like if you had an earlier edition of (let's make
up a book title) Applied E-Mailing  from 2005 and  the customer wanted
the 2nd edition (2007), we couldn't fill that.  Or the customer wanted
the version in Pig Latin  of Smilla's Sense of Snow that was published
in 2007 and we had other editions in English and other languages we
owned published previous to this year, we couldn't fill that.  In both
cases, it's a book published in 2007.  And, really,  Smilla's Sense of
Snow  in Pig Latin would be a different a book  altogether just as
Smilla's Sense of Snow in English was a different book from the original
in Danish due to the contribution and skill of the translator.  

 

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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Our library's policy restricts borrowing and lending materials published
in the last 12 months. For those of you with a similar policy, how do
you treat a current translation of a previously published work? In this
instance, our patron has requested a book published in English
translation in 2007, with the orginal French publication in 1996.
Technically it's not a "new" book; yet to the owning library of the
translation it is indeed new. I'm not quite sure which way to go.

 

Many thanks, Susan
 

Susan Williams

Interlibrary Loan

DeKalb County Public Library - GDK

215 Sycamore St.

Decatur, GA 30030

404.370.3070 x2274

ill at dekalblibrary.org

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