Title: Return of TexShare Card Program materials via TExpress
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The TexShare
Advisory Board has approved a recommendation by the TexShare Card Program
Working Group and the TexShare Courier Service Working Group that materials checked out under the TexShare
Card Program be may returned to the owning libraries via the TExpress courier
service. The TexShare Card Program Agreement and the TExpress Shipping
Guidelines will be revised to reflect this change.
The following
conditions apply when this method of return is used:
- Both the sending and the receiving library
must participate in the courier service. The library which accepts a
patron's books for return by courier must verify that the destination
library has courier service. A list of libraries which use the courier service
is available at : http://www.texshare.edu/programs/courier/librariesname.html
- The books must be marked in some way as
TexShare Card Program materials, to help distinguish them from regular
inter-library loan materials. This will help expedite their routing to the
circulation desk for check-in, especially in libraries where circulation
and ILL are not in the same department.
- The Texas State Library staff has
developed a .pdf format bookmark, based on the yellow flag formerly
available from the State Library, which libraries may use to produce their
own flags to identify Card Program books returned by TExpress. (pdfs
available here: http://www.texshare.edu/programs/courier/ or http://www.texshare.edu/programs/card/ )
- Borrowers should be reminded that they
remain responsible for the books until the books are checked in at the
owning library, just as with returns by postal mail or other express mail
service. They should plan ahead and allow a reasonable time before the due
date for books to travel by courier and reach the destination library.
Ann Mason
TexShare Coordinator
Texas State
Library and Archives Commission
512-463-0188
512-936-2306 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.texshare.edu
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