[ILL-L] non-AV lenders--custom holdings group still necessary?

[Peterson, Kim A.]

Sure. But are there really many libraries that make a distinction between lending music CDs but not book CD's? Enough to make two custom groups?
 
As far as genealogy goes, I don't try to make custom holdings for genealogy lenders because we have very few calls for borrowing genealogy titles and I find that few libraries lend them. So when we do have a call for genealogy I might poke around the policy file OR I might just send a request out to a few owning libraries to see how it is treated. Most family histories are not lent yet I can usually find a lender for a county history. What constitutes "genealogy" is varied depending on who is defining it.
 
Kim Peterson
St. Louis Public Library
 
 

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Laura Barnard
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] non-AV lenders--custom holdings group still necessary?



Kim,

 

OCLC deflection is based on large format categories; it doesn't allow a distinction between musical recordings and not musical recordings, for instance, or allow a lender to break out Genealogy from other books.

 

Until these finer distinctions can be made, custom holdings are still the key to faster turn around time for borrowers.

 

 

Laura Barnard

Coordinating Library Technician

Interlibrary  Loans

Seattle Public Library (UOK)

206-386-4601

 

 

 

From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Peterson, Kim A.
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:52 AM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] non-AV lenders--custom holdings group still necessary?

 

How are ya'll handling non-AV lenders as far as mechanics of creating your WRS requests?

 

I guess my question boils down to this: are custom holding groups/paths still necessary now that auto-deflect is in place and easy to set up for the lender? I ask because keeping up with who lends what has never been especially accurate.

 

 

 


Kim Peterson
Director of Technical Services
St. Louis Public Library
1301 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63103
T: 314-539-0320
www.slpl.org <http://www.slpl.org/>  


 



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