[ILL-L] Custom Lending Groups

[Potapoff,Jason]

What I did when I set up my custom holdings for free article providers was use the advanced search in the policy Directory.  Setting the search criteria as things like Billing  Method: Bills not issued, and Delivery: Ariel.  It generated a listing of 350 or so libraries at 10 libraries a page. And I went through and manually checked the policies to see if they applied to me and added the libraries that would work for me into my custom holdings. Yes this took a long time (technically I haven't finished, I would go through a few pages at a time for as long as I could then stop, mark down where I stopped at and do the search again when I had time later. I'm at library #290 so far) but I did get a nice list of 150 or so libraries that should be able to provide articles to my library at no charge.  The time spent doing this has been very well spent since it has sped up my article searches considerably (talking minutes to do a search instead of over 60 when I had to manually check policies or go off of memory) and it's faster than trying to build up a list manually as I came across free libraries (I tried that but after a few months I only had a list of 8 libraries). 

You can also throw my library (OCLC code: CNNAI) into your list as we send out books or articles free.  Although we cannot take requests through OCLC (we do not subscribe to that function) you can E-mail requests to me.  Since I am in Canada you may want to use us to borrow books only as a last resort since the mailing time will be long (probably 4 weeks) but articles should be fine.   I can send articles by Ariel, Fax or E-mail (as long as you agree to not send the PDF directly to you patron, you must print out a copy).  Most articles from our databases are eligible for ILL. 


Jason Potapoff 
Interlibrary Loans Technician - NAIT Libraries
Department of Technology and Curriculum Innovation
Room U310
11762 - 106 Street 
Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5G 3H3 
P 780.471.8780   F 780.491.3014 E illo at nait.ca
Ariel: 192.197.128.142 
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:27:19 -0600
From: Tristan Duke <tduke at naropa.edu>
Subject: [ILL-L] Custom Lending Groups
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I am trying to improve the Custom Lending Groups at our library.  As of now we have the groups that we are a member of (LVIS, BCR, and BCRC).  We are a free lender to anyone -and I know that there are many others, outside of our current groups, that are also free -or reciprocal (free if the borrowing institution is free).  How can I get a general list of other lenders that are free to anyone -or reciprocal in this way?  Is there an official list of this kind posted anywhere?  I have been collecting free lenders as I find them -but it is rather slow going!

Any suggestions are much appreciated.


Tristan Duke
Access Services Coordinator
Allen Ginsberg Library
Naropa University
Boulder CO.

tduke at naropa.edu<mailto:tduke at naropa.edu>
303-245-4668