[ILL-L] Borrowing of materials and Sensitizing/Desensitizing

[Julia Graham]

At 10:44 AM 10/12/2007, you wrote:
>Good afternoon,
>
>My name is Dina Carmy and I am at The College of New Jersey. I am 
>researching for a colleague the following question: Does your 
>circulation department(or department that patrons pick up ILL 
>books)desensitize and or sensitize the books that are lent to 
>patrons that are borrowed from other institutions? Since the 
>materials are not ours and another lending library's, I am thinking 
>that we should not touch the books at all.
Our Circ dept desensitizes (they check out all the ILL stuff), 
because we don't have the staff time to walk the patrons over to the 
security gate and hand them over.  But we also re-sensitize them when 
we pick them up at Circ (which we didn't used to do, but started 
after several libraries mentioned it might be a good idea).

Julia



>I would appreciate all responses.
>
>Thank you!
>Dina Carmy
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Julia Graham
ILL Coordinator, Humboldt State University
1 Harpst St.  Arcata, CA 95521
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