[ILL-L] ? Very Low Number of New Lending Requests (especiallyjournals) ?

[Paul B Drake]

In March, I made this switch to request from Odyssey delivers first for copy requests and went with trusted sender. These steps cut our article turnaround by more than a day.

We had 522 lending requests from July 1-Sept 8 2007 and 786 for the same time this year. About a 50% increase, despite being closed 5 days last week for Hurricane Gustav. 
Main contributing fqactor: We joined the NN/LM in April and started lending on Docline in June. We get between 4 to 8 requests daily from Docline.

After a 52% increase in borrowing last year, primarily because of implementing Odyssey electronic delivery, this increase in lending makes LHA a net lending again.


Paul B. Drake
Interlibrary Loan Librarian   (OCLC:LHA;DOCLINE:LAUMUL)
Frazar Memorial Library     mcneese.library.edu
337 475 5726
McNeese State University - Excellence with a Personal Touch
GEAUX COWBOYS!!!

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From: "Tom Bruno" <tom.bruno at gmail.com>
To: "Interlibrary Loan Listserv" <ill-l at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 9:46:41 AM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] ? Very Low Number of New Lending Requests (especiallyjournals) ?



Many libraries are beginning to select Odyssey senders first in their Custom Holdings as well.  We're fairly certain that part of our drop in journals requests is due to this, though we're hoping to enable Odyssey sending in the very near future! 


Best, 
Tom Bruno 
Head of Interlibrary Loan 
Widener Library 
Harvard University 


2008/9/9 Zheng Ye (Lan) Yang < LYANG at lib-gw.tamu.edu > 




Many libraries join Rapid ILL system and articles are submitted via that route.  This could also be a contributing factor for low number of lending journal requests. 
  

Zheng Ye (Lan) Yang 
Professor of Library Science 
Head of Document Delivery 
University Libraries 
Texas A&M University 
zyang at tamu.edu 
  
5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843 
  
Tel. 979.862.1904 | Cell. 979-220-4306 | Fax. 979-862-4759 
  
http://library.tamu.edu 



>>> "Melissa Jackson" < Melissa.Jackson at armstrong.edu > 9/9/2008 7:51 AM >>> 



We've noticed lower-than-usual numbers as well.  We've been thinking that it was in part due to the rise in full-text databases. 


Melissa Jackson 
ILL Librarian 
Armstrong Atlantic State University (GAC) 

>>> 
From: "Sue Gagnon" <SGagnon at Anselm.Edu> 
To:"Interlibrary Loan Listserv" < ill-l at webjunction.org > 
Date: 9/8/2008 10:16 AM 
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] ? Very Low Number of New Lending Requests (especiallyjournals) ? 

Joe, 



We have been experiencing the same here at SAC.  We usually get a lot 
more this time of year. 



Sincerely, 

Sue 



Susan E. Gagnon 

Interlibrary Loan Specialist 

Geisel Library - ILL 

Saint Anselm College 

100 Saint Anselm Drive 

Manchester, NH  03102 

sgagnon at anselm.edu 

Tel:  603-641-7303 

Fax:  603-641-7345 

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[mailto: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org ] On Behalf Of joseph augustin 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 9:50 AM 
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv 
Subject: [ILL-L] ? Very Low Number of New Lending Requests 
(especiallyjournals) ? 



Hi, 
     we've a had a suspiciously low number of new journal requests 
coming through in the past two weeks. 
This seems strange to me, as this is usually the beginning of one of our 
"peak seasons" for lending. 
If anyone has been experiencing the same problem lately, or has any idea 
why this may be, please let me know. 

Thank You, 
     ~Joe 

-- 
Joe Augustin 
Interlibrary Loan & E-Serials 
Earlham College (IEC) 
(765) 983-1307 
ill at earlham.edu 


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