[ILL-L] I thought I'd heard everything!

[Brannan, Joyce A.]

This is why some used book stores will not buy books that have any library identification in them, even if they are stamped "discard" or something similar.  I know I never try to contact a library if I buy something with their stamp at a used book store.  If something is returned to us by mistake, we do send it to the library.  Actually, sometimes I think that the students here know that we will send their books for free to their home libraries, and just dump them in our book drop on purpose.

Joyce A. Brannan
Resource Management / Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470
205.652.3677
jbrannan at uwa.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Jean Jones
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 4:12 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] I thought I'd heard everything!

The Unclaimed Baggage store always has lots of library books mixed in
with the other books for sale.

http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/

Barbara


>This JUST happened to us, except our acquisitions department was the
one to
>buy our own book back from a used book seller.  However, the library had
>marked the book "not received" in OCLC and I think they happened upon
it a
>long time after they paid for it and decided not to add it to their
>collection.  But what are the chances??
>
>--
>Michelle Kelley
>ILL Associate
>Van Wylen Library-Hope College
>kelley at hope.edu
>616-395-7794
>
>On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Didham, Reginald <
>RDidham at bostonconservatory.edu> wrote:
>
>> I think the library to which you sent it on ILL in April needs to get a
>> phone call, asking them to pursue their patron!  At the least, that
person
>> needs to pay you for the lost book, which money you can then send on
to the
>> woman who called you, since she probably won't get a refund from
Amazon, and
>> which you don't need now since you have your book back!
>>
>>
>>
>> Reg Didham
>> Cataloging & Acquisitions Librarian
>> Alphin Library
>> The Boston Conservatory
>> 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02215
>> www.bostonconservatory.edu
>>
>> Tel:  617.912.9130
>> Fax: 617.912.9101
>> rdidham at bostonconservatory.edu
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
>> On Behalf Of Sarah Lee
>> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:36 PM
>> To: ill-l at webjunction.org
>> Subject: [ILL-L] I thought I'd heard everything!
>>
>> In my fifteen years with ILL I thought I'd heard everything - but this
>> takes the cake!
>>
>> A woman called us and said she bought a book from a seller on Amazon
and it
>> still had our stamp and barcode!  We had sent that out on ILL in April
and
>> never got it back.  The online bookseller said they buy all their
books -
>> so who knows what happened.  The person who borrowed it sold it?  The
good
>> news is the woman bought it volunteered to send it back us; she is
pursuing
>> a refund from Amazon.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sarah L. Lee
>> Reference Services Mgr./ Webmaster
>> Mobile Public Library
>> PO Box 1587
>> Mobile AL 36633-1587
>> http://www.mplonline.org
>>
>> e-mail slee at mplonline.org
>> ph. 251-208-7085
>> fax 251-208-5865
>>
>>
>>
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