[ILL-L] Postage

[Blair, Robin R (Elizabethtown)]

I do the same thing...in the Call number field I always put "Email Sent" "Courier Sent" "Mail Sent" or "Fax Sent" and if I send it through our courier, I also put the courier bag number

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Bode
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 10:23 AM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: RE: [ILL-L] Postage

When I send an article to an email address I include a note in the Call Number field: "pdf sent via email"  Serves as a reminder to me (in case I have to followup), and lets the borrower know how the article was sent.

Nancy Bode
Parkland College Library
Champaign, IL
www.parkland.edu/library<http://www.parkland.edu/library>

>>> <hwaltman at stcl.edu> 2/9/2009 8:55 AM >>>
I am so happy to receive articles via email or even fax.  We can't use
Ariel due to problems with our firewall and we are not yet using Odyssey
(waiting for a scanner upgrade), so I am really grateful when lenders
send articles by email.  I'm also grateful to have articles sent by U.S.
Mail, but, of course, it takes so much longer.  My question is (and
maybe I'm missing something), when lenders send articles and update the
status of the record in OCLC to SHIPPED, is there any way of knowing how
the article was sent?  Obviously, if we don't get an email or a fax
shortly after the status has been updated, I just assume that the item
has been sent by regular mail, but I would love to know for certain in
case I haven't received something by email but should have.  Is there
some good way of specifying (in notes or elsewhere) which transmission
method has been used to send an article?



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Heather Waltman
Interlibrary Loan & Reference Librarian
Fred Parks Law Library
South Texas College of Law (STX)
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Houston, TX 77002
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