[ILL-L] contemplating a change: no due date on WRS

[Potapoff,Jason]

Kim, when you lend out books do you stamp "No Renewals" or otherwise include a message with the paperwork sent with the book?  I know that when I process borrowed books I rely on the owning library to indicate on the paperwork whether they allow renewals so I can mark my paperwork appropriately. If there is no mention either way I will either go off of memory if it is a library I am familiar with, guess according to the length of lending time provided (a library that gives 2 weeks lending time usually allows renewals, a library that gives more than a month probably doesn't) or mark it as not renewable.  I rarely will go in and check the library's policy to track down that information when I receive the book and will only check the policy if a patron asks for a renewal.   

So perhaps marking the paperwork with a No Renewal (beside the due date probably the best spot) and run a highlighter over it would help eliminate some of those renewal requests. 


Jason Potapoff 
Interlibrary Loans Technician - NAIT Libraries 

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:29:53 -0500
From: " Peterson, Kim A." <KPeterson at slpl.org>
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Re: Renewals
This is one of the main reasons why this option is attractive to me because we do not renew. Even though our WRS policy states "no renewals" we still get several renewal requests each day. And, I do understand why, who really has time to read into a policy to find out if the lending institution renews, it's just much easier to send the renewal request.

Our loan period is 6 weeks. I think that's generous and I'd prefer not to deal with renewal requests except in extraordinary circumstances and then, I figure the borrowing library can place a phone call to us.

We do not recall items.

We do not use WRS to track items, we use our internal ILS for that.

The information below about borrowers having to fill in due date on their ILL  management software (which we do not have) is useful because that gives me a picture of an additional step borrowers have to do.

Kim Peterson
St. Louis Public Library