[ILL-L] RE: conditionals, deflections, etc (was policy problem)

[Melissa Jackson]

We get occasional requests for the DVD  "Everything is illuminated" despite having all video recordings deflected.  The director says somehow one of the fields got changed to mark it as serial.  This is odd, considering we don't lend serials either, the "videorecording" code is in the record, and we don't mess with the fields that mark format.   (He told me which one it was, but I forget since I don't speak Cataloging.)   I've reported it to OCLC twice, but have never gotten a response.

Still, the odd one or two that slip through each quarter are FAR less than the requests we used to get.  In the grand scheme of things, it's no biggie.  :)


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian


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From: 	"Campbell, Heather" <HEATHERC at coj.net>
To:	"Interlibrary Loan Listserv" <ill-l at webjunction.org>
Date: 	10/3/2007 1:12 PM
Subject: 	RE: [ILL-L] RE: conditionals, deflections, etc (was policy problem)

I know that -in our case- the "slip throughs" happen because: 1) someone
mis-cataloged it or 2) because the request came through as a photocopy
request instead of as a book request.  Mixed media items evade the wily
deflection net on occasion, but deflection has been a very helpful tool
for us.

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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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Lee
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Subject: [ILL-L] RE: conditionals, deflections, etc (was policy problem)


I have longed for more "reasons for no" since inception - one for "don't
lend AV" and one for "too new", these are the bulk of our requests it
seems.  We conditional people now for the new  and
non-circ-but-will-copy
things, but it sure would be easier to do them with the rest of the
no's.
Delection by pub date would be a dream!

BTW, why do youyou think things slip through deflection once in a while?



Sarah L. Lee 	
Reference Services Mgr./ Webmaster		
Mobile Public Library		
PO Box 1587			
Mobile AL 36633-1587
http://www.mplonline.org 
	
e-mail slee at mplonline.org 
ph. 251-208-7085	
fax 251-208-5865

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