[ILL-L] Limit to number of books a student can take out?

Fri Feb 6 13:13:07 EST 2009

As Heather says, it really does boil down to money.  Students and faculty sometimes seem to think that ILL is completely free simply because they do not have to pay anything.  It's not that I personally care if someone wants something for recreational reading, but, it is using taxpayer money.  We try to limit requests to academic purposes, although that isn't always possible to tell.

Joyce A. Brannan
Technical Services Librarian
Julia Tutwiler Library
University of West Alabama
Livingston, AL 35470
205.652.3677
jbrannan at uwa.edu

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of April Younglove
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:54 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Limit to number of books a student can take out?

To play devil's advocate for a moment: I agree that it's important for students to be aware of the lender's terms, but is it important for us to know if the student is correctly using the loaned item to its fullest potential?  Why are we concerned with what they do with a library item once they have it?

April Younglove
Technical Services Specialist
Linfield College, Portland Campus Library
503-413-7448
ayoungl at linfield.edu
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
> Campbell, Heather
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:43 AM
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> I know that as a public library, we may be speaking of apples and oranges here
> (as a Floridian, I insist on being the orange)--BUT we oranges found that our
> customers have the free-for-all candy shop reaction to WorldCat. They want it
> all, but they don't have the time to read everything they request or even the
> inclination to check everything out.It would drive Circ staff-especially at our
> branches- (ummm)bananas. Customers would stand at the check-out desk and
> pick and choose what they wanted tocheck out---- as the linebehind them grew
> ever larger and angrier. A lot of books were sent back unread- only (in some
> cases) to be requested again. Since ILL is notfree, alot of time and resources
> were wasted. I did a survey and 10 was the median number most public libraries
> chose as an activerequest limit.Our Library Board approved the policy change.
> ILLiad canenforce the limit for you, soI set10 as the limit when we went live
> with Borrowing. We have had atwo or threeof complaints over the 5 years
> we've had this limit, but my staff has been grateful for the limits since Borrowing
> is the most labor intensive part of the ILL process. It helps morale to know that
> all your work won't go for nought.
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> Heather Campbell
> Special Services ~ Interlibrary Loan and Books By Mail
> Jacksonville Public Library(OCLC:JPL)303 North Laura Street
> Jacksonville, Florida 32202
> heatherc at coj.net904-630-7017 VM:904-630-2985
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
> Document Delivery
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:05 PM
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> Subject: [ILL-L] Limit to number of books a student can take out?
> We have a class where some students are requesting 15-20 books interlibrary loan. We have a
> policy of no more than ten ILL books charged out to a patron at a time. Do other libraries have
> similar policies or thoughts? Thanks,
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> Edward Helmrich
> ILL Office
> Ryan Library
> Iona College VXI
> 914-633-2352
> docdelivery at iona.edu
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of
> Becky Grinolds
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 12:27 PM
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> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Re: Friday musings
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> When their items arrived, we send an email letting them know that it is here and that we will hold
> it for 10 days. On the 11th day we send the item back or recycle the articles. If there are charges
> from the lending libraries they are put onto the patrons account.Otherwise we don´t charge.
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> Becky Grinolds
> Lewis Clark State College
> Lewiston, ID
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> Shirley R Thomas/FS/VCU
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:07 AM
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> I'm interested in knowing whether other libraries have a $2 fines for items not picked up.
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> We are considering doing this because we have over 30 returnables each month that never get
> picked up. We also have just as many or more electronically delivered articles that the users
> never read.
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> Shirley R. Thomas
> Head, Resource Delivery Services
> VCU Libraries
> 901 Park Avenue
> Richmond, VA 23284-2033
> Fax: 804-828-2260
> Voice: 804-828-1706
> https://illiad.library.vcu.edu/illiad/
> Sarah Lee <slee at mplonline.org>
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> Last year we instituted a $2 postage/handling charge for ILL's received
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> a $2     additional fine for items not picked up. It worked
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> Sarah L. Lee
> Technical Services Mgr.
> Mobile Public Library
> 5555 Grelot Rd.
> Mobile AL 36609
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Sharon Bleau
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Mountain State University

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