Betsy Engelbrecht gave me an idea yesterday regarding the turnaround time survey. She suggested emailing me the information. My first reaction was a negative. I still had to turn in the paper work to TSL and I must enter the data on their web pages. The paper work was necessary. But when I looked at the forms to mail out I realized all I needed was your receipt date on them. So I will use the email system from ILLiad. I will send you an email requesting receipt dates. This is different from the return information you send us on the arrival emails, so do not get confused. I will place in all caps TURNAROUND TIME so you can tell the difference from these emails and the arrival emails.
When you receive a TURNAROUND TIME email from the ILLiad system please respond by letting us know the day you received the item from the lender. If you have not received the item hold on to the email until you receive it. Hit reply to the email and let us know the received dated. I will note your received date on the ILLiad form. THIS WILL SAVE MAILING BACK THE FORMS. We will still send you the collection form for Austin Public Library material that we collect turnaround time data on, just return that information with the books. Technically TAT is just this week but I must collect a certain number of forms so it may go one more week. I will stop as soon as get the required number of responses from you. Thanks for all you do. Thanks Betsy for the suggestion! I sent some emails out to Killeen. Hopefully they will respond as their material arrives from the lender. More will go out today and next week. Nancy Gemmel, Managing Librarian Interlibrary Loan Austin Public Library 800 Guadalupe Street Austin, Texas 78701 ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 512-974-7399 fax 512 974-7464 TOLL FREE TX 18002421880
