[ILL-L] sending links and PDFs

[Ledja Cullen]

Interesting questions.  I'll be waiting to see if anyone has answers on these.  Also, that is some service!!  Picking up an article for a patron while traveling out of the country!  This is why I love librarians :)

Ledja Cullen
Reference & Evening Services Librarian
Golden Gate University - Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: (415) 442-6689
Email: lcullen at ggu.edu
>>> "Robinson, Arthur " <arobinson at lagrange.edu> 12/16/09 11:20 AM >>>


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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Heather Williams


The only case I can think of in which it
would matter would be finding an article in a database that your library
does not have license to use, but maybe you personally do, and using it
for library business.  

 

This reminds me of a hypothetical situation\ I've wondered about.  I wasn't going to ask about it unless it came up, but since things are less busy than usual, and I'm curious...

 

I have personal subscriptions to three or four print UK periodicals that are not readily available in US libraries.  Suppose someone posted on this listerv an ILL request for an article from one of these.  Would it be kosher for me, as an ILL librarian, to volunteer to supply a photocopy of the article, even though the subscription is not my library's but mine?  (We don't charge for ILL, so we certainly wouldn't be making money on it.)  Or would I need to get the publisher's permission?

 

Here's another rsituation that actually did occur.  A few years ago, a patron requested on ILL an article in Chinese.  I tried to get it on ILL from a US library (our ILL policies state we only borrow from other US libraries), but couldn't.  The patron was fairly insistent, and since I was about to travel to the UK, I said I'd try to get a copy from the British Library, which had a current subscription.  As it turned out, the BL didn't yet have the issue the patron wanted.  But if I had copied the article (at my expense) and given it to the patron, would I have violated copyright law or ILL standards (though technically I wasn't using ILL)?  Maybe it's a good thing I wasn't able to get it.

 

Arthur Robinson (GLG)