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

[Avery Hicks]

Yeah! You can still do it in the FirstSearch advanced "expert search" (woooo!)

Quoting "Breedlove, W Stephen" <breedlov at lasalle.edu>:

>> Remember when you had to use search keys to search OCLC, something
> on the order of ti: att,th,in,p?
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> Stephen Breedlove
> Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
> La Salle University Library
> breedlov at lasalle.edu
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]   
> On Behalf Of Janet Stewart [Janet.Stewart at umb.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:18 PM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...
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> Hardships of Mansell???? Don't knock Mansel!!!   You don't know what  
>  hardships are unless you were doing ILL without Mansell.
> What a stride forward it was over verifying in national print   
> catalogs and then making PHONE CALLS!!!
> We thought we had died and gone to heaven that we could afford Mansell
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> No longer on the shelf of course now--sort of like the pony express   
> before the telegraph
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>
> Janet Stewart
> UMass Boston
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org   
> [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Carmela Kinslow
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:50 AM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...
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> 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!
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> Carmela
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> Carmela Kinslow
> Associate Librarian
> Head of Access Services
> Kresge Library
> Notre Dame Law School
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org   
> [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Collette Mak
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:57 AM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...
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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
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> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org   
> [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Carol A. Vaeth
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:40 AM
> To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...
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> This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but I love this story.
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> 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."
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> 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
> ILL Coordinator - BAL       It doesn't get better
> Langsdale Library                  or worse;
> University of Baltimore     it just gets different.
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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
> To: ill-l at webjunction.org
> Subject: [ILL-L] Once upon a time in ILL...
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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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Avery Hicks
Reference Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
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