[ILL-L] Unfilled status

Lara Little Lara.Little at pfeiffer.edu
Thu Jul 3 12:36:34 EDT 2008


We have the same problem, and then we have to put the request back in. I 
can see how this feature is useful for bad article cites - but it 
shouldn't be an option for "loan" requests, only "copy" requests. As it is 
now, I don't consider it a feature - it's a bug!

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Lara B. Little
Reference/Periodicals Librarian & Library Coordinator
G.A. Pfeiffer Library/Pfeiffer University
Misenheimer, NC 28109

ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org wrote on 07/03/2008 12:10:38 PM:

> Yes they do. They go to unfilled if updated to NFAC by any potential 
lender
> in the string and it is very frustrating. This is a recent OCLC
> "enhancement" that causes many problems. Ninety five percent of the 
requests
> we have go to unfilled NFAC were actually cited correctly and were 
errors on
> the part of the lender! I wish OCLC would get rid of this feature!
> 
> Sara Fitzpatrick
> Interlibrary Loan
> Webster University Library
> Eden-Webster Library System (ELW)
> Phone 314-246-7807
> Fax 314-968-7113
> ill at library.webster.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org 
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Henderson, Tom
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:49 AM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: [ILL-L] Unfilled status
> 
> Do requests automatically change to unfilled if reported as NFAC by the
> first lender?  We've had several requests change to unfilled after the
> first lender reports NFAC without a conditional. 
> 
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> Millsaps-Wilson Library | Millsaps College
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