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

[Beth Willis]

If it's SOON to come off your "new items" list, responding with a Future Date makes the most sense to me. Let the patron decide whether they want to wait, or attempt to get from another lender which doesn't have the policy issue.
 
 
 
Beth Willis
ILL Department Head
bwillis at mcpl.lib.mo.us
Phone: (816) 521-7231
Mid-Continent Public Library - http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
Unless explicitly attributed, the opinions expressed are personal.

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of FFenske at cob.org
Sent: Mon 10/1/2007 1:41 PM
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Subject: [ILL-L] ILL - To reply Policy Problem, or not?




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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