[ILL-L] Borrowing multiple copies for a class

[ILL_PSC ILL_PSC]

We don't borrow text books or required readings -- at least those we know about. We also don't purchase them for the collection.

If the instructor doesn't make students purchase the books (usually optional readings or a choice of one of multiple books), we will buy multiple copies, put them on reserve, and give students one/two week use. So far, we've done this only once. We bought three copies of five books for a class on psychology.

In accordance with the ILL standard practice of one borrower/one use, we never put any ILL loans on reserve.

I don't think copyright comes into it -- unless you are ILLing photocopies instead of books.

Linda

Linda Celet Bane
Interlibrary Loan (PWS/PWSA)
Mary F. Shipper Library/LRC
Potomac State College of WVU
Keyser, WV  26726-2697
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>>> "Trisha Cantwell Keene" <tcantwell at coa.edu> Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:17 PM >>>
I would like to hear people's perception of borrowing multiple copies of a fiction title for an academic course.
Do some people practice this?
What about copyright concerns?
Thanks,
Trish
 
Trisha Cantwell Keene
Associate Director
Thorndike Library
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Bar Harbor, ME  04609

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