[ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates

[Bell.Jacobsen at state.sd.us]

If I can't find holdings listed and if it's the only record I generally
start looking in catalogs for dates/holdings which can be a long process
but I just can't assume that the library owns something without
verification.

 

Bell Jacobsen 
South Dakota State Library/Pierre SD 

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I think that many holdings for electronic serials are not listed because
OCLC offered the option of putting a library on record as an owner
through their serial solutions, etc., holdings. I understand that many
libraries did this for their own patrons: their patrons would see in
WorldCat that their library owned the title, then they would go to their
local catalogs to get the dates they owned.

 

When I see no holdings listed, I assume it's in electronic form, and
that they don't have permission to lend it. OCLC can put the holdings on
also, but the embargo, etc., make it complicated. Do others agree with
these impressions?

 

Ed Helmrich
Iona College

 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Denise L Montgomery
Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 5:45 PM
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The trouble of it is, when you are requesting from an electronic
serials record--and this is my complaint about electronic serials
records--is that they list NOTHING in the way of holdings years for any
institution: not the beginning date, not the end, nothing!
It makes it extremely frustrating, because you know that most holdings
prior to the mid 90s aren't going to be available electronically, and
many libraries are going to have the last year embargoed, but you don't
know this. You just request blindly, and hope for the best, or use some
common sense, and hope that someone on the dwindling number of
libraries listed on the print serials records which list beginning or
ending serials dates are able to supply what you need.

Anyone know why electronics serials records don't list dates of
holdings?

                                Denise Montgomery
                                Valdosta State University Library

aslill, aslill (EED sponsored) wrote:


>Is it possible to make the holdings read something like "1985- (1 yr
embargo)". I do look at holdings when I request journal articles, and
this would tell me not to request recent articles. I know not everybody
looks at the holdings when they do their requests, but for those who
do, it would increase ou efficiency as borrowers, as well.
>
>Becky Orford
>
>Interlibrary Loan 
>Alaska State Library
>P. O. Box 110571 
>Juneau, AK  99811-0571
>
>e-mail: aslill at alaska.gov
>
>http://library.state.ak.us <http://library.state.ak.us/> 
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>From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Heather L Brown
>Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 12:59 PM
>To: ill-l at webjunction.org
>Subject: [ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates
>
>
>Apologies if this has been covered before. I'm not quite sure how to
search the archives.
>
>A number of years ago, all of our ejournals were added to Serhold/OCLC
so that they could be lent to other libraries (license dependent, of
course).  There are about 500 titles that have embargos and there is no
easy way to handle this in holdings statements except put the range
available at that point in time and update when you see fit or delete
these titles all together.  Otherwise, you get hit with requests you
can't fill and cancel for licensing reasons.  This is what we do now
and our fill rate looks awful.  Has anyone else found a solution other
than what I've mentioned here or have any thoughts on these worsening
fill rates?
>
>Thanks!
>Heather
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