On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Michael Bimmler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:31 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interlibrary loans at your university (or public library) are not free >> at all. They are just free for *you*, because your university picks up >> the tab for you. The average cost of an item borrowed through ILL at a >> typical mid-size university is between $20-$30 per item. (google: >> "average cost interlibrary loan", find lots of studies to this >> effect). This, however, is part of the cost of doing research. > > That's interesting...mind telling my resident University of Zurich > librarians that bit, should you ever meet them at a conference? > I currently get charged (and yes, the figures are the same nevermind > whether I use it as member of the public or as enrolled student or as > faculty member) > > 7 Swiss francs for books from other libraries in the > German-part-of-Switzerland university libraries network > 10 Swiss francs for books from the rest of Switzerland > 20 Swiss francs for books from Europe minus Great Britain > 35 Swiss francs for books from Great Britain > 45 Swiss francs for books from the United States > "depending on how much it actually cost *us* " for books from all the > other countries > > Would love to hear some more experiences on this: Is it common in the > US / UK for academic libraries not to charge at all for ILLs? Then I'm > ever so slightly envious...
In the unlikely event that my university library didn't have a book (it's a copyright library), the charge is £3 (c. 5 Swiss francs, according to Google). The request almost invariably goes to the British Library. Next-day ordering can be arranged for £9. Sam -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
