[ILL-L] Time Saver Tip: due date more than 4 weeks.

[Dawn Berg]

A great way to save yourself (and the rest of us) time and money on
overdue notices and renewals is to make your lending checkout due date
MORE THAN 4 weeks in the future. You can still specify 2 weeks use, 3
weeks use, etc if you choose, but you will not have as many overdue
notices or  many renewal requests to process. I had to request renewals
on 5 things yesterday the day they arrived because they were due in less
than a week from the date received. If those libraries had given a
longer due date, I obviously wouldn't have had to do that.  Here at UAA,
when I receive a loan that doesn't specify a loan limit, I usually give
myself a mailing buffer and my patron a two, three week or 4 week loan
(depending on patron status) even if the date is 6 or 8 weeks out, I
don't assume that the long due date means my patron can have item 6 or 8
weeks...

 

 We check out loans for 8 weeks here at UAA which gives adequate time
for mailing, (we ship loans Priority Mail) a decent loan period of 3
weeks and return mailing time (especially when Library Rate takes 3-4
weeks!).  When a library requests a renewal, I merely need to check the
status of the item for holds and then say yes or no, I rarely have to
renew on our circ system or change the due date in ILLiad as there is
plenty of time left!  Out of 171 checkouts, we only have 13 overdue
items today, so very few overdue notices to process/mail. This also
means we are not crossing a lot of notices in the mail that you need to
open and deal with on your end either.

 

I hope this is helpful,

 

Dawn Berg

 

Interlibrary Loan

UAA-APU Consortium Library

University of Alaska Anchorage

3211 Providence Dr.

Anchorage, AK 99508

 

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