[ILL-L] Would you submit a request like this?

[Melissa Jackson]

No, I would not.  There is no way to give fair credit to the lender for the work when four requests are on one form.  It also interferes with copyright reporting, and what do you do if the first two issues are available but the other two aren't?    

If I was the borrower, I'd defintely put one request per form, even if they did all come from the same volume of the same journal.  If I was the lender, I'd conditional them and ask for four separate requests.

Just my two cents on a chilly Monday morning.  


Melissa Jackson
ILL Librarian


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From: 	"Eastman, Carrie" <Carrie.Eastman at purchase.edu>
To:	<ill-l at webjunction.org>
Date: 	1/30/2009 5:19 PM
Subject: 	[ILL-L] Would you submit a request like this?

I just want some opinions:

Would you submit a request for four separate volumes of one journal with
three separate dates and four sets of page numbers in one interlibrary
loan request?  Essentially the request is for four separate articles (I
am assuming because there are not article titles given) in one request.
I'm not sure this is really kosher in terms of how much confusion and
work it is imposing on the lending library.

Would you ask the borrower to go back and submit each article
separately?

And to top it all off, these journals are in microform . . . 

Carrie



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