[ILL-L] ILL on Course Reserves - limited time period

[Campbell, Heather]

Now, you have me wondering  if the reason some of our long-standing
overdue loans are still not returned is because they've been placed a
reserves shelf! 

 I'm with the poster who mentioned the wear and tear issue.  We've
experienced that.  A staff member (the ILL staffer!) at another public
library borrowed a fairly new copy of a Zane book.  It was extremely
overdue (well past the billing stage) when it finally came back.  It
looked like it had been through the ringer quite a few times.  We
charged the borrower for the price of the book.  She called us and
chewed out one of my staff members saying that it "was like that when
she got it" and blamed the in-state courier service. (If a book is lost
or damaged by the courier, they pay for it.) This was not a unique
situation with this borrower; there were some other urban fiction titles
that she borrowed that got the same treatment.  My staff assumed she
passed the books around among friends.  We have a short list of
borrowers that we won't lend urban fiction to because the books were
consistently lost or damaged while in their care.


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 Laura Barnard
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:02 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] ILL on Course Reserves - limited time period


Nora,

Without checking to see if Boucher has spoken to this, I would consider
these issues:
    
    the book was borrowed by you with indication it was for A patron,
not many patrons
    if it is put on reserve, it is exposed to use by several persons, so
possibility of damage or loss is 
    greater than the owning library might have understood in the
beginning.

I would suggest contacting the lending library and asking them if they
mind.  

We are a public library and don't face this exact situation.  However,
we have had patrons who want to borrow their friends ILLs.  Our practice
has been to have the second patron submit a request of their own for the
title.  Usually we will try to get another copy from another library and
let the first one go back to its own (owning)  patrons.  If there aren't
many copies out there, then we  may contact the lending library and
determine if an extension of the due date for use by a second patron
would be acceptable.  

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

>>> Nora Allred <nsallred at mtu.edu> 4/8/2008 1:02 PM >>>
Hi All,

We have a class in a panic to get their hands on a book.  One student in
the class has the book -  through ILL -  and is willing to place it on
Course Reserve for the duration of the ILL loan period (about 2 weeks.)
I have read that it is "against the ILL code" to use ILL material for
reserves, but I just reread the national code and can't find anything
that says this cannot be done or that it's unethical.  Would you allow
this?  Is there a general statement regarding ILL and reserves that I'm
overlooking?  (I reviewed the US and MI state codes.)

Thanks in advance for any speedy replies.

Nora

--
Nora Allred
Head, Access Services
J. Robert Van Pelt Library
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI
phone: 906-487-3208
email: nsallred at mtu.edu 


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