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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:02:24 MDT
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- From: Laurie Cardon <LIBLXC@BYUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: document delivery
- Lines: 79
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- >We here at UC Riverside-Rivera Library are exploring the idea
- >of an on-campus document delivery service. I would like to hear
- >from libraries which have implemented such a service. Specifically,
- >I would like to know:
- > 1. To whom is the service available? Faculty;
- > grads; undergrads;other?
-
- This service has been offered to BYU faculty for several years.
- We are considering extending it to patrons w/ disabilities as well.
- I should explain what we're doing. The circulation department has
- taken faculty requests for books owned by the library. We charge
- them to the patron on the automated system, stamp them, desensitize
- them, and then deliver them to the patron's on-campus office. We
- also accept pickup requests -- retrieving materials from faculty for
- return to the library. About 1/2 the time, the 'pickup' requests are
- actually renewal requests, so we end up returning the books to the
- faculty. This service is called Faculty Book Deliver (FBD) and is
- free.
-
- About 2 years ago, ILL (which in our library is a separate department
- and is actually administered through a different division) began a
- Faculty Document Delivery service, which charges a fee. FDD has
- retrieved books or articles, whether owned at BYU or obtained through
- ILL, photocopied articles, and delivered all materials to faculty
- offices. The exception has been BYU-owned books, which they gave to
- circulation to charge and deliver.
-
- You are all asking yourselves: doesn't this result in a large
- duplication of effort? The answer is, yes. So, this month, we have
- implemented a consolidation of services. All requests for materials
- are now routed through ILL, including requests for pickup/renewal of
- circulating books. ILL passes all pickup requests straight through to
- circulation. Material orders are processed and retrieved by ILL. ALL
- items, including photocopies, are then routed through circulation. We
- do all of the computer work (including stamping due dates, etc.), and
- then deliver materials to faculty offices. Based on two weeks of
- experience, it does seem to be working out OK.
-
- > 2. Do you charge for the service? IF so, for
- > what do you charge, and how much?
-
- Faculty are charged a base fee, I think it's $2, for a 'document'
- request. (This is defined as a periodical article or similar item.)
- The fee includes up to 10 photocopied pages. Additional pages are
- billed at $.10/page. ILL fees are also applied as appropriate.
- There are no fees for library-owned materials.
-
- (This probably strikes some of you as strange, but the reason is that
- it actually benefits my department. There are no overdue fines for
- faculty on this campus. This means that many faculty simply ignore
- overdue notices. They wait until we actually bill them for the item,
- and then they come in to renew it -- at which time we have to clear
- all of the charges. It actually costs us less money to go out and
- pick the items up, renew them, and return them to the offices than
- it does to price and bill for non-returned items. Plus there are the
- PR issues involved. So, we end up catering to the lazy so as to
- avoid conflicts.)
-
- > 3. How do users place their requests with the
- > document delivery service: e-mail; campus mail;
- > phone; in-person?
-
- All of the above.
-
- >I would appreciate answers to these questions and am interested
- >in any other information you would care to provide. Please
- >respond directly to me. Thank you.
-
- In cases like this, I find the list appreciates knowing what others
- are doing. I hope none of you have been offended by my use of
- bandwidth.
-
- Laurie
- *************************************************************************
- Laureen Cardon ║ Truth is an approach to living,
- Circulation Librarian | not just an approach too knowing.
- Brigham Young University |
- Provo, Utah 84601 | - Parker Palmer
- LIBLXC@BYUVM.BITNET | (quoted at 1992 BYU Conference)
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