[ILL-L] ILL - To reply Policy Problem, or not?

[Campbell, Heather]

We conditionalize these.  I've had a lot of negative feedback in the
past from ILL staff in libraries who say they're too busy to read OCLC
ILL Policy statements, so this was the only way I knew to let them know
that we don't lend recently published (2007) books. When JPL was
undergoing a growth spurt in buildings and collections earlier this
century, we were inundated with requests for new books.  I've even
gotten a request for a book that won't be published until -next- year.
Until OCLC gives us a way to deflect requests by year- in addition to
beingable to request by format-, this will be the way we handle this
type of policy problem.

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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I was wondering how everyone else replies to a request for a New item,
that
will come off New status in a year, and would be available to circulate?
Our ILL policy, at BLP, says that we do not loan New items, so the
logical
reply is Policy Problem.  I would like to see a new reason added to the
list, "Too New To Lend." This new reason, to me, would indicate that at
a
later time a new request could be made on that item when it is no longer
New.

What do you folks think?

Fay Fenske
Bellingham Public Library
210 Central Ave
CS-9710
Bellingham WA  98227-9710

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