[ILL-L] creating an automated ILL system with NO money...

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My guess is that if you join LVIS you'll have to pay some for postage.
We use Clio, which for small operations is only $300 or $350 per year,
but I know some libraries just use WRS,

 

Edward Helmrich 
Interlibrary Loan Office 
Ryan Library 
Iona College VXI 
914-633-2352 
docdelivery at iona.edu 

 

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Julia Graham-Whitt
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:13 PM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] creating an automated ILL system with NO money...

 

Greetings ILLers.  

I have temporarily been plunged back into the world of libraries, and
one of my new tasks at the library here is to get ILL up and running
again.  We are a very small junior college library, which is heavily
underfunded, understaffed and undervalued (IMO).  As a result, we have
absolutely NO money in the budget to do anything "extra" such as pay for
shipping other than a few items now and then.  We are not even a
supplier on OCLC (something I plan to change very soon), due to the fact
that we have, yes, no money.

 

Surely we are not the ONLY ILL out there that doesn't have the funds to
purchase either ILLiad or Clio.  How have others managed to run their
ILL without killing lots of trees to track materials?  I would also be
interested in joining LVIS, but again, cannot do so until I can do a
rough estimate of how much shipping would cost, and then probably apply
to the local Foundation for funds to pay for shipping.

 

Please feel free to reply only to me, as I'm hoping there aren't a TON
of libraries out there in this situation.  I'm feeling rather unhopeful
about the whole state of things, but perhaps there is something out
there that I haven't yet thought of.

 

Thanks for your help, 

 

Julia (farmer full time, part-time library staff for a bit)

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