[ILL-L] Entering library code multiple times ~ ?

[Glenn Canner]

Bruce, 

This is just a way for the lending library to be given extra time to respond to requests.  It's often preferred by libraries with very large collections and/or many branches.  Each time a symbol is listed in the lender string, the lending library has four days to respond, so entering a symbol twice allows eight days, and five times allows 20 days.  

Sue Gagnon at Saint Anselm College maintains a list of the Enter-My-Symbol-Twice (EMST) Libraries at: 
http://www.anselm.edu/Library/EMST.html

Best,
Glenn Canner 
Manager of Resource Sharing and Course Reserves 
Gelman Library 
George Washington University 
2130 H Street, NW 
Washington, DC  20052 
(202) 994-0629 voice 
(202) 994-2645 fax 
gcanner at gwu.edu 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bruce Jensen <rbjensen at southtexascollege.edu> 
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:48 pm 
Subject: [ILL-L] Entering library code multiple times ~ ? 
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv <ill-l at webjunction.org> 


> Please forgive me if I missed an explanation for the query raised by Mr. 
>  Peterson (below) about libraries asking that their codes be entered more 
>  than once.  We've run into it with a couple libraries this week (Lib 
> of 
>  Congress, for example, asks that you enter them 5x; a local library 
>  wants to always be in there twice) and we in the back room here are now 
>  wasting our time on idle speculation.  It is rampant idle speculation 
> at 
>  that.  I've searched the list archives with no luck. 
>  
>  Bruce Jensen 
>  Library Services 
>  South Texas College 
>  Ph: 956-872-6420 
>  Fax: 956-872-8398 
>  
>  
>   
>  Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:56 AM 
>  To: 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv' 
>  Subject: [ILL-L] HCO--enter our library 5 times--sound familiar 
>  
>  
>    Anyone else had this happen to you?   I requested a 2006 book 
>  (relatively new) from HCO (Hennepin Co--Minn)  they requested that I 
>  resubmit the request in OCLC with HCO entered five times.  Checking 
>  their policies they routinely request that you put HCO  in twice.   My 
>  only theory is that entering our library five times for a new book is 
> a 
>  way to give their patrons maximum access to the book before they 
>  surrender it up to an ILL request. 
>   
>    Always something new---that's a good thing right? 
>  Lloyd 
>   
>  Lloyd A Peterson 
>  ILL  (HRR) 
>  Heartland Regional Library 
>  P.O. Box 231 
>  Vienna, MO 65582 
>  573-422-9866 
>  FAX   573-422-3771 
>  
>  
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