Hi Everyone,
UConn is mulling over opening up the media collection to a wider interlibrary loan audience. ILL staff states: " Currently, the HBL only lends DVD and VHS media to CTW consortium members, Regional Campus Libraries, and BLC [Boston Library Consortium] libraries. Since ILL transactions are based upon reciprocity, this restriction is effecting our ability to borrow media from other libraries for our users. Opening the HBL media collection to unrestricting lending (at the discretion of the Interlibrary Lending Librarian) will enable us to better serve our users." We no longer have a media library and our media collection is open stacks and accessible to patrons. The regular loan period is seven days to all patrons. Reserve loans are 3 hour, longer for faculty who placed item on reserve. I am responsible for all types of reserve material for classes - books, purls, scans, personal copies, media, and streaming media - at the main campus. We serve apx. 31,000 enrollees in 900 courses at all campuses. I'm pretty sure this is going to happen and I am curious as to how other libraries handle this issue. Concerns for me are: 1. Material not being there when the faculty/students need it (and the expectation by same that it will be there). 2. Transit and/or user damage. 3. Lost/missing/long overdue items. 4. Re items 2 & 3, impact on hard to find/impossible to replace items. 5. A growing trend for placing media on Reserve. We currently process about 800 titles per year, thus ramping up #8. 6. Competing uses - ILL and reciprocal borrowing vs. need for the collection to be available to classes. For those with experience in either ILL and/or course reserves: 1. How do you handle this issue of competing resources? 2. Are damaged items/no returns/long overdues problems? 3. If you do loan out your media collection via ILL, how's that working? 4. What other solutions can you suggest, e.g. using ILL requests as purchase requests and/or placing heavily used items on permanent reserve? Thanks in advance for your input. Jo Ann Jo Ann Reynolds Reserve Services Coordinator University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library Storrs, CT 860-486-1406 [email protected] Question Reality
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