[ILL-L] length of time for aging to next library

[Laura Barnard]

The evidence we have from experience seems to corroborate what others have said is their understanding - the date changes at midnight.

Whatever the logic is or isn't that runs OCLC, you can know what date OCLC considers day one of the 4 days by looking at the referral date.  You can see that in WRS when you look at your pending file; in the right hand column, the referral date is just below the lender string.  If you look at an individual request, the referral date is the date given in the upper right hand corner of the request form as the date the status became pending for your institution.

Do any of you out there have a different understanding of what 'referral' date means?

Laura Barnard
Interlibrary Loans
Seattle Public Library (UOK)
206-386-4601
ill at spl.org

>>> "Burns, Jacqueline, JCL" <BurnsJ at jocolibrary.org> 10/29/2007 4:04 PM >>>
Does it matter what time of day a request arrives in your Pending file?
Example, if a direct request arrives from another library arrives in my
Pending file at 11:30pm on a Monday, does that Monday count as a day in
the aging process?  When will that request age to the next lender?  At
12:00am or 11:30pm on Friday?  I've had a hard time getting a definitive
answer on this.

Jackie Burns
Document Delivery Librarian
Johnson County Library (KNJ)
9875 W. 87th St.
Overland Park, KS 66212
913-495-7558
burnsj at jocolibrary.org 

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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Canner
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:42 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] length of time for aging to next library

 

It's actually four days, not including Saturdays, Sundays, and these
holidays:

*  New Year's Day 

*  Thanksgiving Day 

*  Day after Thanksgiving 

*  Christmas Eve 

*  Christmas Day 

*  New Year's Eve 

See:
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/resourcesharing/using/refcard/ 
default.htm

Request Aging
Every time your symbol appears in the Lender string, you have up to four
working days from the time a request appears in your Pending file (not
from the time you first look at it) to update as Yes, No, Conditional or
Future Date.

If you don't act on a request in that time, the system will
automatically send it on to the next library in the string or, if there
aren't other libraries, it will become an Unfilled request. Sending a
Conditional response resets the clock and gives the requesting library
four days to respond to your Conditional or Conditional/Pending message.


Glenn Canner 
Manager of Resource Sharing 
Gelman Library 
George Washington University 
2130 H Street, NW 
Washington, DC  20052 
(202) 994-0629 voice 
(202) 994-1340 fax 
gcanner at gwu.edu 


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From: libloan <libloan at oneonta.edu> 
Date: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:24 pm 
Subject: [ILL-L] length of time for aging to next library 
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv <ill-l at webjunction.org> 


> Can anyone tell me how long a request stays with one library before it

> gets moved to the next libary?  I've heard 3 days and 5 days - but 
> have not located it on OCLC (not alot of time). 
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>  Thank you, 
>  Pamela Flinton 
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>  InterLibrary Loan  
>  James M. Milne Library 
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