From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu]
On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu [ghand...@library.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:54 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] ILL
We loan, since we borrow! Our lending is limited to academic institutions.
We review all requests for the following criteria, which we do not loan:
1. Regular or heavy use for classes.
2. Titles for which we are rare on OCLC (5), although we will
negotiate access for scholars.
3. License or
For about a year UW Seattle has been loaning videos to libraries in the US and
Canada with the following restrictions: the item must be accessed in the
borrowing library only and for no more than 3 days. When a request comes
through for a title that is unique or rare (out of distribution and
I've often seen cost of the video used as a reason for excluding it from ILL.
This is faulty logic because if something happens to the item, the borrowing
library pays. Not the lender who owns the item. This is an important principle
of ILL that I've found that many librarians don't know.
We loan videos that do not have a huge in-house demand to Texas
libraries. Sometimes beyond. The pricier ones we tend to keep here. We
rarely buy titles that have serious restrictions unless they are crucial
to our workforce training department, for instance.
Christine Crowley
Dean of
Hi all
UC Berkeley loans (highly selectively) to other UC campuses, and that's
it. We do not loan:
1. titles that are regularly or heavily used for particular classes
2. titles for which we are the sole Western US holder
3. titles which are out of distribution
4. titles which have
