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

[Julia Graham]

At 05:51 AM 10/15/2007, you wrote:

>Hello,
>     No, we don't desensitize nor sensitize other libraries' books 
> through ILL.
>We do instruct new users to hand the book(s) to the Information attendant
>before exiting or re-entering the library.  I've never heard 
>complaints from our
>users.
>    I feel this is a unnecessary processing step for us and not 
> something that a
>lending library appreciates.
>

Just for the flip side... :-)
Our Circulation dept. checks out all the ILL materials, so they do 
de-sensitize them, because we just don't have the staff available to 
walk over to the exits for all ILL stuff checked out (our Circ is run 
on a bare-bones staffing).  But since we are desensitizing them, we 
also re-sensitize them.  We don't have a desensitizer here in our 
dept. (Sue mentioned they don't have one in ILL, and neither do we), 
but we pick up all the returns at Circulation, just as all the 
outgoing stuff is at Circ.  They conveniently have a "thunker" (the 
technical term), on the way back to our office, so we just thunk them 
on the way back.  Making sure not to do the tapes and videos, of course!

It may not work for everyone, but it works for us!

Julia


>Pat
>
>Pat Barbour, Coordinator of Interlibrary Loan Services
>Central Michigan University Libraries  - EZC
>250 E. Preston Avenue
>Mount Pleasant, MI  48859
>Phone:  989-774-1212   Fax: 989-774-4499
>From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org 
>[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Julia Graham
>Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:10 PM
>To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
>Subject: Re: [ILL-L] Borrowing of materials and Sensitizing/Desensitizing
>
>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
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                                                         - Erica Jong
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Julia Graham
Humboldt State University
Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
jlg7001 at humboldt.edu
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