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

[Campbell, Heather]

In our case, we put returned-from-ILL-Loan books on the carts/trucks to
be re-sensitized and sorted for shelving.  Our branch books are sorted
in our delivery room and -upon return to the branches- they are
re-sensitized as part of the return process -in other words- treated as
if the books had come back through the book drop instead of through the
delivery.  We assume that other libraries have desensitized our books so
that their book detection systems don't ring and don't re-sensitize
them.

Heather Campbell
Special Services ~ Interlibrary Loan and Books By Mail
Jacksonville Public Library
Jacksonville, Florida 32202
ill at coj.net    904-630-2985 


-----Original Message-----
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Joe Ellison
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 11:05 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Borrowing of materials and
Sensitizing/Desensitizing

In our case, the objection is that we have no equipment to 
resensitize. Many years ago, the Northwestern's library bought the 
type of system that cannot be de-/re-sensitized. All books, including 
our own, are passed to the exit attendant when people leave the 
library. If someone manages to desensitize our books, we can't 
resensitize them.

Joe Ellison
Document Delivery Assistant, Transportation Library (OCLC symbol JCR)
Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Dr.
Evanston, IL  60208-2300
phone: (847)491-8600, fax: (847)491-8601
j-ellison at northwestern.edu
ARIEL: 129.105.19.35 or staff019035.library.northwestern.edu
Visit the Transportation Library: 
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation

At 08:03 AM 10/15/2007, you wrote:
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>I'm do not understand the objection some libraries seem to have to 
>other libraries desensitizing their books.  We have to desensitize 
>material passing through the security gates or the gate would 
>lock.  Yes, we could hand the books to the students, which wouldn't 
>be a big deal, but that would be highly impractical to do for the 
>mail or UPS pick ups.  We keep the book sensitized until a the 
>person requesting the book shows an ID, then we desensitize.
>
>Joyce Adams Brannan
>Technical Services Librarian
>Julia Tutwiler Library, Station 12
>University of West Alabama
>(205) 652-3677
>jbrannan at uwa.edu


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