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

[Atkins, David P]

Some campus mail is better than others...that is just about everybody
but us.  

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
                     

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Coogan, Elizabeth
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:06 PM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] FW: Question: Campus Delivey via golf cart?
> 
> 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-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
> [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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