[ILL-L] borrowing entire issues one article at a time

[Julia Graham]

At 09:28 AM 3/19/2008, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>How do you address systematic borrowing from a single journal 
>issue?  We have cases where a journal publishes an issue on a 
>specific topic that is of interest to a patron.  The patron then 
>requests many if not all of the articles in the issue.  Our ILL 
>policy lists "entire issues of journals" under "what cannot be 
>borrowed."  But our patrons are getting around that by requesting 
>single articles.  I'm concerned that this would be a violation of 
>copyright.  But I'm also wondering how much effort I should expect 
>my staff to expend watching for such "abuses."

Hi Nora,
Well, it's not a violation of copyright if you pay fees to CCC.  But 
it can REALLY add up.  I had to order 11 articles from a single title 
(spread over 2 issues) for a faculty here.  The cost for 
copyright??  $450.  And this occurred in January, so we're really in 
trouble if anyone else asks to borrow from this journal.  I did ask 
the subject librarian to intervene on this particular case, because I 
figured the faculty didn't  realize or understand the kind of costs 
he was asking the library to incur.  We will be subscribing to this 
journal after this year, because of this.


>Or should I be more explicit in our policy?

Well, you could try and borrow the whole issue.  There is a small 
list of libraries (I have a custom holding set up) that loan whole 
issues of journals.


>Please share your solutions and ideas.  Thanks in advance.

We let the patron know if it's a very costly endeavour, and if it's 
for an undergrad, I encourage them to contact reference to try and 
find other sources than every freaking article in the issue.  If it's 
for a faculty, I may try and borrow the whole issue, but I may just 
order the articles and we eat the CCC costs.

Everyone's different.  But that's how we do it.

Julia

>Nora
>
>--
>Nora Allred
>Head, Access Services
>J. Robert Van Pelt Library
>Michigan Technological University
>Houghton, MI
>phone: 906-487-3208
>email: nsallred at mtu.edu
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Julia Graham
ILL Coordinator
Humboldt State University
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