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

[MARINGER Cassie]

Augh! Please, no! It's frustrating when lenders do that.
 
Our member libraries track their OCLC ILL requests through the "My
Account" feature in WorldCat. It is confusing for them when a request is
missing from the list. 
 
It would be impossible to request a renewal.
 
We would get error messages when updating requests to 'returned' via
Clio (and we're not going to separate out which of our borrowed items
still need to be updated and which don't).
 

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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	Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:49 AM
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	Subject: [ILL-L] contemplating a change: no due date on WRS
transaction
	
	
	One library that lends to us regularly does something that I
think is a clever labor savings step: they set up the WRS transaction
for returnables with a due date of "N/A" so that the WRS transaction
disappears when I receive it.
	 
	I can't remember how they let us know the due date--I think it's
indicated on the accompanying paperwork.
	 
	From there we send the book out to our patron, and when patron
returns item we ship it back to lender. There's no WRS transaction to
update to "returned" and the lender doesn't have to "complete" the
transaction.
	 
	What kind of problems does this create for you all? I like it,
but I wonder if it will result in issues for you all that I can't
foresee.
	 
	Comments, please. 
	 
	 
Kim Peterson
Director of Technical Services
St. Louis Public Library
1301 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63103
T: 314-539-0320
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