[ILL-L] Monthly cap on ILL borrowing

[Campbell, Heather]

We don't have a monthly cap- just a cap of no more than 10 items at any
stage of the ILL process at a time. Our customers would exceed that if
they could and some use the workaround of using spouses, children's and
significant others' cards to register for ILLiad accounts and request
books. Even with the cap- there's a sizable percentage of ILL books that
come back with the NPU (not picked up) notation- often from the same
customers who complained about the cap.

 

Heather Campbell

Manager- Special Services (Interlibrary Loan and Books by Mail)

Jacksonville Public Library (JPL)

303 North Laura Street

Jacksonville, FL 32202-3505 heatherc at coj.net  (904) 630-2986

 

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We had a limit of 12 or returnables held by a patron at any one time,
but they didn't exceed it by more than three or four, so we dropped the
limit. Some libraries want to encourage borrowing and will borrow as
many as a patron wants, it depends on policy, I guess.

 

Ed Helmrich

Iona College

 

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Subject: [ILL-L] Monthly cap on ILL borrowing

Has anyone implemented a monthly cap on ILL borrowing for your local
patrons?  We have a daily limit of five, but when there are industrious
requesters, five per day adds up fast!  I am primarily concerned with
mitigating our returnables borrowing for budgetary reasons but want to
make sure suggesting to limit in that manner isn't taboo.  I am just
nearing the one year mark in performing interlibrary loan so I'm still
feeling a bit green in some areas.  :-)  Any thoughts or insight are
appreciated!

 

Thank you,

 

Cheryl Mancini

Electronic Resources/Interlibrary Loan/Serials

Clark College Library - LIB 112

1933 Fort Vancouver Way

Vancouver, WA  98663

360.992.2559

cmancini at clark.edu <mailto:cmancini at clark.edu> 

ill at clark.edu

 

 

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