[ILL-L] FW: Question: Campus Delivey via golf cart?

[Coogan, Elizabeth]

Why do you feel you need a cart?  Can't you use campus mail delivery for
this.  This is what we do.

We started this about 10 years ago when the main ILL office was moved
across campus to our Sciences Library because there was more room.  At
first we had a little cart and a staff member would walk the material
back and forth but that wasn't very effective especially in bad weather.
Our mail room staff said they would pick up and deliver  the material
for the main library and move things back and forth in the library truck
along with other library mail. Two years ago the main ILL office was
moved back the the main library, the Rock, but the mail room staff still
takes the ILL stuff back and forth.  There's not so many books being
moved because most of our students and faculty want to pick up their
books at the Rock.  Sciences mainly deals with articles, which are
received electronically and posted electronically.
 
We use ILLIAD so for notifications we take the items destined for the
Sciences are taken  out of the "Awaiting customer contact" and put in a
queue "Sciences pick up" or in the case of articles that patrons want to
pick up at the Rock they go into a queue "For Rock pick up".  The ILL
staff at Sciences put the books on the hold shelf and do the
notifications as does the staff(i.e. me) at the Rock.  
 
Returned books are handled at whatever library the patron returns them
to so we don't send those books back and forth.
 
Beth Coogan
Elizabeth C. Coogan
Sr. Library Assoc. Specialist
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-2169
elizabeth_coogan at brown.edu


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Atkins, David P
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 9:35 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: [ILL-L] FW: Question: Campus Delivey via golf cart?



> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm investigating options for using a golf cart or similar vehicle for

> cross-campus pick-up and deliveries.
> 
> If we were delivering golf clubs, finding workable options would be
easy.
> Since we're delivering library materials in all four seasons and in
all
> kinds of weather, finding workable options is not so easy.
> 
> I've had some luck finding options that protect the driver, but not
much
> enclose and protect cargo.
> 
> Could anyone share any experiences, makes and models, purchase or
lease,
> for such use?
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> David P. Atkins
> Team Leader, Access & Delivery Services
> John C. Hodges Library
> datkins at utk.edu
> The University of Tennessee                                (865)
974-0022
> Knoxville, Tennessee  37996                               fax
(865)974-
> 2708
> 

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