[ILL-L] fun ILL blog entry

[Melissa Jackson]

All right, I can top Julia's current winner.  335 requests in six weeks this summer, currently hovering around 600 for the year.  (It would be higher, but we cut him off for a while to keep from going too far over our IFM and copyright budgets.)  His requests included medical articles and books in French, German, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Hebrew, Serbian, Spanish, Dutch and English.  Before you ask--he reads or at least can muddle through ALL of those languages except Hebrew.

I really hope the library gets mentioned in his book dedication.  We certainly deserve it!


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian

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From: 	Julia Graham <jlg7001 at humboldt.edu>
To:	Interlibrary Loan Listserv <ill-l at webjunction.org>
Date: 	11/7/2007 2:33 PM
Subject: 	Re: [ILL-L] fun ILL blog entry

At 05:20 AM 11/7/2007, you wrote:


>Colleagues-
>
>
>Here's a fun blog entry from Jonathan Miller, awarding a prize to 
>the patron for the most ILL borrowing at Rollins College:
>
>http://rollins-olin-library.blogspot.com/2007/11/we-have-winner.html 
>

That's a great idea, to give out an award like that.  But I had to 
scoff.  50 requests in a year?  Please.  Amateur. ;-)  MY current 
winner is a history faculty who has requested 195 items in the last 
year alone.  Many in German and many quite obscure. :)  And I'm sure 
Arthur at La Grange can top my winner.