[ILL-L] Books checked out

[Markley, Patricia]

I believe the standard used to be that ILL was not used for materials
your library owned, or should have owned (see Boucher's older ILL book),
whether or not the material was actually available at the time of the
ILL request.  Realities being what they now are; however, that approach
is impractical.  I have long operated under the principle that if an
item isn't on the shelf, as far as the patron is concerned we might as
well not own it.  So we place ILL orders for item our staff cannot find
on shelf.  Large university libraries with many more requests might not
be able to do this, but they also have many more staff members so maybe
they could.

The original rule about not ordering anything your library owns or
should own dates from a time where ILL service was limited to faculty
and graduate students and when libraries expected to collect everything
their clientele would normally need.  Things are different now.

Pat Markley

Siena College

 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jean M. Wurster
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:39 AM
To: ill-l
Subject: [ILL-L] Books checked out

 

What do you do when a student wants a book that is checked out for a
month?  Can one request this book on interlibrary loan?

 

  Thanks for your help with this. 

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