We have a consortium here in MI called MELCAT, and we've been
circulating AV media through it. Our students are also getting media
through it, but I'm not sure if we are giving out more than we are
requesting.
We can "sequester" any AV materials that are needed for classes and reserve.
I don't know the stats on the benefit or detriment of this program yet
-- we've been exchanging for about a year now. But the deal was - if our
crowd was going to get media from all the public libraries that belong
to the consortium, then we had to follow suit. But course reserves can
trump.
I'll try to get some more details from our ILL coordinators on this for you.
Randal Baier
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]
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