[ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...

[Carmela Kinslow]

The bad days indeed.  Been involved with ILL for a very long time (30+ years) and to think of where we came and what we managed to get done despite the
"hardships" of NST, NUC and Mansel.  I also remember at Hesburgh Library (this was in the early 1970's) using a teletype machine to send requests to the Univ. of Illinois Slavic  Slavic and East European Library.  The one thing I would not trade is being there at the inception of OCLC and to experience the tremendous strides that ILL has taken over all these many, many years. ...  Yep, those were the days!  Thanks for the memories!    Have a good weekend!

Carmela

Carmela Kinslow
Associate Librarian
Head of Access Services
Kresge Library
Notre Dame Law School

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Collette Mak
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Ah, the bad old days!     If we're going down memory lane, anyone else remember when the OCLC symbols were in the order the symbol was added?    Big day when they organized them by state.   But even the random symbols were better than just NUC and Mansel!

Collette Mak
Notre Dame
cmak at nd.edu


From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Carol A. Vaeth
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This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but I love this story.

Many moons ago...when ILL requests were received in the mail on 4 part carbon paper forms...I received a book request that was typed, but one word in the title was hand corrected.  The typed title was "Adolescent Sin Offenders: issues in Research & Treatment."

The word 'sin' was crossed out and the correct word for the title was handwritten...'sex.'  I thought that was quite Freudian!!

Carol A. Vaeth
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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Chappell, Cyndi, JCL
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:17 AM
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Fellow ILL folks,

I am putting together an ILL Tour and Overview session, which will be attended by staff here at Johnson County Library (KNJ).  To spare them from an entire hour and ½ of dry procedures, statistics, etc., I'd like to throw some humor into the mix.  Would anyone care to share some examples of strange, funny, and-I-thought-I'd-seen-it-all types of requests you've seen come through your departments, either on the borrowing or lending side of ILL?

Many thanks!

Cyndi Chappell


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