[ILL-L] borrowing current year materials

[Jeanine Weber]

Our library's ILL policy is to not loan books that have been in our
collections for 6 months or less.  I base it on the cataloging date, not on
the publication date.  So, if we had cataloged a book within the last month,
but the publication date was 2005, we would not loan it.  So basically, we
are saying we will not loan books that are new to our library, not just new
to publication.

In answer to your question, based on your policy, we would not loan that
2007 translation of a 1996 French book.  I think that technically it IS a
new book.  Your policy looks to be based on publication date and should not
consider previous editions.


On 7/18/07, Inter-Library Loan <ILL at dekalblibrary.org> wrote:
>
> 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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