[ILL-L] Reasons for No

[Ledja Cullen]

I choose "no non-circulating" for our closed/course reserve books even though they circulate to our patrons.  True, the catalog record indicates the item is circulating, but I have it in my ILL policy on WCRS that we do not lend closed/course reserves via ILL.  The problem with this is that most libraries probably don't have time to check the catalog and read my WCRS ILL policy. 
 
Ledja Cullen, MLIS
Reference & Evening Services Librarian
Interlibrary Loans & Course Reserves
Golden Gate University - Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: (415) 442-6689
Fax: (415) 512-9395
Email: lcullen at ggu.edu 
http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary 


>>> "Potapoff,Jason" <JPOTAPOF at nait.ca> 11/12/2009 8:35 AM >>>
I would call that non circulating because for the purposes of libraries contacting you the book is a non-circulating book (ie. It doesn't circulate to other libraries).  A better response would be Not ILL Eligible.  But since that is not an option, non-circulating is probably the closest thing.  Besides in the end it is the same result for the library trying to borrow. The book isn't allowed to be lent to them so unless an exception is made they cannot borrow it just like any book that would fall under the "no non-circulating" option.  The real difference there is the borrowing library probably had no way of knowing it from looking at your catalogue. We have that same issue with some books that are not eligible for ILL. Our own patrons can borrow it so the book is in our main shelves with a different status setting that allows NAIT patrons to borrow it but not non-NAIT patrons. Unfortunately the catalogue doesn't display this status so the book shows up as an available circulating book in our online catalogue which means there's no way for people to know by looking at the book's catalogue record that it has different "permissions" than most of our books. 



Jason Potapoff
Interlibrary Loans Technician - NAIT Library
P 471.8780    




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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:42:23 -0500
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I have a question on "Reasons for No."  I used to be slightly irritated
at the vague "Policy problem," but now I'm wishing it were still an
option, since I'm using the even vaguer "Other."



The situation:  my college now has an intensive graduate program in
Education, in which students need materials quickly.  (There were
problems last summer because it was taking me an average of 3.7 days to
get articles for students; apparently that was too slow.)   As a result,
when we get ILL requests from other libraries for Education books, I
have to get approval as to whether or not we can lend them.  Ordinarily,
my policy is, if a student wants a book we've sent out on ILL, I order
another copy from another library; but for this program, students can't
wait that long.  



When I'm asked not to lend these books, what kind of "No" is that?
They're not "in use/on loan"; they're not "non circulating" (our
students can check them out); none of the 16 "reasons for No" seems to
apply.  Is "Other" appropriate?



Arthur Robinson (GLG)



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