[ILL-L] RE: Two questions (ILL articles on reserve and Requestingrenewal)

[Butler, Margaret]

Hello, Arthur and others,
 
Regarding renewals requested after the item has come due, we renew items
even after they have become overdue, so long as the borrower makes the
request.  
 
Not every library uses systems (ILLIAD or CLIO) that track due dates
automatically, and I know it is easy to overlook due dates that are
manually tracked.  So, to be nice to our library-borrowers, we make
renewals for items that are overdue when the borrowing library asks.  I
figure that our overdue notices (sent out monthly to borrowing
libraries) may act as a prompt to the borrower to make a renewal
request.  
 
Since we started doing this, all our books have been returned.  (One
book was returned and lost in the mail, but that's not a renewal issue
so much as a postal problem.)
 
As far as our own borrowers, when our patrons (usually professors) want
to keep a title for more than 6 months (or request a title multiple
times), we consider ordering the book for our collection, if it's in
print.  
 
Meg

Meg Butler

Reference Librarian

New York Law School

212-431-2148

 

 


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	We renew an item twice or up to three months total unless one of
our patrons has put a hold on it, or it's a special item, etc., Ed.

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	Sent: Mon 4/21/2008 9:17 AM
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	Subject: [ILL-L] RE: Two questions (ILL articles on reserve and
Requestingrenewal)
	
	

	I'd like to know on #2 as well - I've always assumed that if the
due date is the date its due back to the lending library, then one needs
to request renewal enough in advance that they can still get the book
back by this date (so I try to renew about a week ahead - when I give
our patrons a due date - I give them a full week early because we have
had items take almost 2 weeks in the mail before, but I figure a week
should be enough of a "good faith effort" to get the item back on time).

	 

	But if its typical ILL practice for the other - then I need to
do that - I normally still do renew items if they request renewal on the
due date or within a couple of days - but I've always assumed that I'm
being nicer to other libraries in doing that than to our own patrons
(who can't renew once its overdue...) But maybe that's just what is
expected?

	 

	What about items that are a month overdue?  Occasionally I get
renewal requests for items that I've already sent out the one month
overdue notice on... Do most of you go ahead and renew for a full
renewal period, say no completely, or give them a weeks' renewal to get
the book back during?  Just wondering now that the question has come
up... 

	 

	Alison

	 

	Alison Jones

	Public Services Librarian

	Baptist College of Florida

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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robinson, Arthur 
	Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:47 PM
	To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
	Subject: Two questions (ILL articles on reserve and Requesting
renewal)

	 

	I know both these topics have been discussed before, but I can't
remember the details.

	 

	(1)      I have just discovered that a professor put an ILL
article I had obtained for him on reserve.  The semester's just about
over, but for the future, how should I handle this?  I know we shouldn't
put ILL books on reserve, but is there a problem, copyright or
otherwise, with putting articles on reserve?  Should I warn faculty that
ILL articles shouldn't be put on reserve?

	(2)     A colleague in Circulation is taking over from me (yay!)
the task of keeping track of due dates for ILL, requesting renewals,
harassing deadbeats, etc.  I have a vague memory that some libraries
want renewal requested two or three days before the book is due back at
their library, so I had got into the habit of requesting renewal daily
for all books three days  before the due date (I come in seven days a
week).  My colleague usually comes in five days a week, so I suggested
she might want to request renewal on Friday for books that were due back
at the other library over the weekend or on Monday.  But apparently this
isn't happening.  Am I misremembering and/or paranoid?  If, for example,
the lending library's due date is April 21, is it safe for her to wait
until the 21st to request renewal, or should she do so before then, and
if so, how many days before?  

	 

	Thank you!

	 

	Arthur Robinson (GLG)

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