[ILL-L] fun ILL blog entry

[Melissa Jackson]

He didn't use GIL Express much, because most of what he wants is articles.   He's really into old or extinct journals for his medical research.  I guess he wants items written during a specific time period and not 40+ years later.

Right now we're looking at getting a package from JSTOR that would include all the backfiles from the British Medical Journal.  If we do, that'll cut back on his ILL since he'll be able to get a lot of his stuff online.  I've made a personal plea to the director, and now all we can do is pray we can find the money for it.  :)


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian


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From: 	Denise L Montgomery <dmontgom at valdosta.edu>
To:	Interlibrary Loan Listserv <ill-l at webjunction.org>
Date: 	11/7/2007 6:51 PM
Subject: 	Re: [ILL-L] fun ILL blog entry


What I would like to know is, how much did he also did through GIL 
Express as well? Most of these characters, at least from my experience 
here, are usually heavy users of that system for the mainstream stuff.

                       Denise Montgomery
                       Valdosta State University Library
who, in the last twelve months, has turned out to be the heaviest user 
of our ILL system with 168 requests...and more requests than that via 
GIL Express! But I have the excuse of working on a book.



Melissa Jackson wrote:


>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!
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>Melissa Jackson
>ILL Librarian
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