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

[Susan M. Lee]

I once ordered a book about home made beer making for an incarcerated student.  He SAID he needed it for biology.  The prison librarian sent it back and told me that it was considered contraband.  He also said that I was lucky that it didn't come back with stamps to that effect on the cover and inside the book.

 

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Sue

Susan Lee M.L.S.
Information Services Librarian
University of Great Falls Library
1301 20th St South
Great Falls, MT 59405

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So many books, so little time

 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Carolyn Scheer
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
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Two of our recent loans to correctional facilities include a book on wilderness survival to a facility in Oregon, and the book "Forbidden knowledge :--101 things not everyone should know how to do" (including "how to break out of prison") to a prison in New Mexico.  We also love to tell about lending our book on 'building backyard catapults' to a Large Important Air Force Base.

At 12:43 PM 6/4/2009, you wrote:



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We get a lot of requests from correctional facilities. Two memorable requests were for a book on lip reading, and a book about how to tell if someone is lying to you. 
 
Kelley Hunt
MCMLS
 

 

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [ mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org <mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org> ] On Behalf Of Perrin Lumbert
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:26 AM
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We had several requests a few years ago from a hopeful individual from a correctional institution as well:  he was looking for introductory guides to understanding basic concrete and steel engineering/weaknesses...

Lisa Nason wrote: 
Hi,
 
We once had a request from a correctional institution for Aleister Crowley's "Magick in Theory and Practice". Since I never heard anything about a spectacular escape from said institution, I guess the reader didn't find it that useful...
 
Lisa Nason
Library Administrative Assistant
Quimby Library, Unity College
Unity, ME 04988
207-948-3131, ext. 328
 
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [ mailto: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...
 
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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Carolyn Scheer
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Union, MO  63084
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