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

[Wes Elliott]

Safety Harbor does not lend fiction DVD's, new books, or
professional/reference items.

 

Wes Elliott

Library Assistant II

Safety Harbor Public Library

727-724-1525

elliotj at tblc.org

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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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