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

[Laura Barnard]

Carrie,

If this involves 4 separate articles, I would conditional the borrower that we could fill one article but the other three need to submitted as separate articles.

If it involves one article, that continues over 4 issues/volumes, then we most likely would fill it.  When I have this situation as a borrower, I usually  ask in the borrower notes if the lender would prefer 4 separate requests.

I have never been certain whether an article that continues over several issues is a single article or 4 separate ones.  I would respect the lender's desire, however, to break it up into parts so their statistics reflect their workload.


Laura Barnard
Interlibrary  Loans
Seattle Public Library (UOK)
laura.barnard at spl.org
206-386-4601



From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Eastman, Carrie
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:15 PM
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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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