[ILL-L] fun ILL blog entry

[Barbour, Patricia A.]

Wow, Arthur, you certainly did have a variety of languages!

Don't we all have the most interesting requests!

 

Pat

 

Pat Barbour, Coordinator of Interlibrary Loan Services

Central Michigan University Libraries  - EZC

250 E. Preston Avenue

Mount Pleasant, MI  48859

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I can't match Melissa Jackson or Pat Barbour.  We did have a professor
who requested 300 items, nearly all books, on ILL in her three years
here (actually she requested more than that; she used COPAC to identify
books to request, so a lot of the books she wanted weren't in any US
libraries).  My favorite ILL patron (I've mentioned him before)  once
requested 126 items at a time, and another time 66 items at once (though
32 of the 66 turned out to be in our library)--then he wouldn't come to
pick them up.

 

Last year was a slow one--the most any patron requested was 124.  But he
made up in quality.  Most of his requests were for books in German,
Latin, Greek (ancient and modern), French, Italian, Dutch, and who knows
what else.  Oh yes, there were also two or three in English.  At one
stage near the end of our fiscal year, he had single-handedly accounted
for five-sixths of our IFM expenditures to other libraries (then someone
else went on a dissertation-borrowing binge).

 

Arthur Robinson (GLG)

 

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Sent: Wed 11/7/2007 2:34 PM
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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.

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