[ILL-L] Reasons for No

[MARINGER Cassie]

Another solution would be to use local holdings records to deflect ILL
requests on the item level.
 
You wouldn't necessarily have to add LHRs for every record in the
reserve collections, just those that are requested a lot through ILL.
Keep a list of the OCLC#s you add deflection to & then delete those LHRs
when the items become available for ILL again. I use that method for
reserve books held at the academic library in our cooperative and for
new, popular titles that have long local hold queues. 
 

Cassie Maringer, Senior Library Assistant, Interlibrary Loans 
Washington County Cooperative Library Services (OQX) 
111 NE Lincoln St MS 58B, Hillsboro OR 97124-3036 
Phone: 503-988-5576  /  Fax 503-988-5221 
Email: cassiem at multcolib.org 

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[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robinson, Arthur 
	Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:56 PM
	To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
	Subject: Re: [ILL-L] Reasons for No
	
	

	Many thanks for the helpful feedback to all of you.  The books
are not on reserve (we already have dozens of Education books on
reserve, but since we suddenly have many graduate students in Education
with a wide range of topics, our concern is to have books available for
check-out when students need them).  We're still sending some Education
books out on ILL, but mainly older books or ones that are considered
likely to be needed soon.  I've been reluctant to reply
"Non-circulating" because we probably will lend these books when
intensive Education courses aren't in progress, so the books may be
available in the future.  But maybe that's how I should list these,
because we would certainly be willing to photocopy chapters, or pages on
a specific topic, from these books.

	 

	We have a similar situation in that a professor is teaching a
course on Harry Potter this fall.  We have several Potter-related books
that are in fewer than ten US libraries (in one case, we're the ONLY
non-UK library that has the book, according to WorldCat), and we've been
getting lots of requests for those.  Again, some of these books are on
reserve, and some aren't, but I've been asked not to lend them this
semester.  But this is a one-time matter; after mid-December, we'll be
happy to lend these books, so I've generally been replying "In use/on
loan"-again, not really accurate, but at least this shows they'll be
available in the future.

	 

	Arthur Robinson (GLG)

	 

	 

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