[iBorrow] Brother, can you spare a dime novel?

Tue Apr 3 12:00:25 EDT 2007

Hi Al, 

Florida Southern College does not lend Cds, DVDs, VHS, software,
children's books (Instructional materials collection), or reference
items.

Nora

Nora Galbraith

Resource Sharing Librarian

Florida Southern College

863.616.6454

ngalbraith at flsouthern.edu

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From: iborrow-bounces at lists.tblc.org
[mailto:iborrow-bounces at lists.tblc.org] On Behalf Of Al Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:12 AM
To: iborrow at lists.tblc.org
Subject: [iBorrow] Brother, can you spare a dime novel?

IBorrow users,

We all know that our borrowers are going to request what they want when
they want it through any point of access they can reach.  So, there's no
point in giving them a list of what other libraries won't loan.

But ILL staff can be, and often are, more discriminating.

If you have done any work with the Search Item feature in Mediated
Borrowing, you know that it gives you a list of the participants who
have an available copy 'right now', and that you can choose which one is
your 'preferred lender'.  If you were trying to find a lender for a CD
that one of your patrons wanted, and you had a list of what was 'off
limits' at each potential lender, you could select a preferred lender
with a certain amount of confidence.  Or, you might look at the list and
say, "Time to visit OCLC".

So, we'd like you to reply to this Email and describe-in the proverbial
nutshell-what your library will not lend via iBorrow.  

Please note that I'm sending this out as though I were the IBorrow
discussion list, so your reply will go to the whole list, not just to
"Al Carlson".  So, watch your language.  We will also take the results
and post them to Beth's Blog.

("But, wait a minute" I hear some of you say.  "Didn't we send you that
information prior to going live with iBorrow?  Don't you already have
it?"

The answer is "Yes, but not in any form that can be easily shared",  We
sliced and diced all the data everyone sent us and put it in a form that
the iBorrow Agency Setup tables could digest.  Reversing that process
would be ugly, at best.  One or two sentences from you would be far
preferable.)

Al Carlson

System Administrator

Tampa Bay Library Consortium

1202 Tech Blvd. Suite 202

Tampa, FL  33619

813-622-8252 ext. 223

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