[ILL-L] Borrowing contact / Lending contact

[Avery Hicks]

Judy,

I also have always assumed what you do. It seems to make sense - when  
you want to contact a library about a book you borrowed from them, or  
want to borrow from them, you contact the Lending contact. When you  
want to get someone about a book they borrowed from you, you call the  
Borrowing co ntact.

-Avery Hicks

Quoting "Judy A. Davis" <davisja at u.washington.edu>:

> Hi - I've always been confused by the designation of "borrowing   
> contact" and "lending contact" - Please help me with their   
> definitions.
>
> Is the lending contact the person who processes the loans at a given  
>  library (i.e. loans the given library's books to other libraries)?
>
> Or is the lending contact the person from a given library who asks   
> other libraries to loan their books to the given library?
>
> I have always assumed the first (and the corresponding definition of  
>  borrowing contact, i.e. the borrowing contact is the person who, on  
>  behalf of a given library, asks to borrow items from other   
> libraries) but when I call libraries I'm often transferred to the   
> contact opposite from the one I've selected as appropriate.
>
> Or is it that the borrower contacts the "borrowing contact" and the   
> lender contacts "lending contact"?
>
> On this last Friday in June could someone please shed some light on   
> this long-pondered question?
>
> Judy Davis, Resource Sharing Librarian
> Gallagher Law Library
> University of Washington School of Law
>
>
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Avery Hicks
Reference Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
(757)259-7720         www.wrl.org
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