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.
Therefore, it's your own patrons that you need to worry about when it comes to lost & damaged materials. Or more often, it's the shipping does things in -- We just paid for a book that we had returned, but was received in 2 pieces (thanks postal service). Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | [email protected] VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
