ACQNET: RE - Acquisitions and ILL partnerships (3 more replies)

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Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:19:34 -0500
From: Karl Debus-Lopez <KDebus-Lopez_at_nal.usda.gov>
Subject: RE - Acquisitions and ILL partnerships

Hello,

When I worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later 
Georgetown University, I implemented
Acquisitions/ILL programs. The UW Madison program was documented in two 
articles listed below.
Suzanne Ward of Purdue University has been a leader in this area. 
Suzanne's e-mail address is: ward_at_purdue.edu

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,
Karl

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Articles related to Acquisitions/ILL programs:

Allen, M., S.M. Ward, T. Wray, and K.E. Debus-López, “Patron-Focused 
Services in three USA libaries:
collaborative Interlibrary Loan, Collection Development and 
Acquisitions,” Interlending & Document Supply, 31(2), 2003, pp. 138-141.

Ward, S.M., T. Wray, and K.E. Debus-López, “Collection Development Based 
on Patron Requests: Collaboration between
Interlibrary Loan and Acquisitions,” Library Collections, Acquisitions, 
and Technical Services, 27(2), 2003, pp. 203-213.
https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/handle/1903/1908


Karl E. Debus-Lopez
Head, Acquisitions and Collection Development Branch and Chief 
Collection Development Officer
National Agricultural Library
Agricultural Research Service
United States Department of Agriculture
10301 Baltimore Ave., Room 002
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351
Voice: (301) 504-7230
FAX: (301) 504-5243
E-mail: kdebus-lopez_at_nal.usda.gov


Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:56:31 -0500
From: Susan Anderson <sanderson_at_mail.ewu.edu>
Subject: RE - Acquisitions and ILL partnerships

Good morning

We are thinking about instituting this process and I wonder if any of you
use Alibris as your vendor. I talked with our Alibris vendor rep and 
their process
sounded like it might work for us.

Regards,
Sue


Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:56:54 -0500
From: Jane Schmidt <jschmidt_at_gwemail.ryerson.ca>
Subject: ILL partnerships - thanks and brief summary

Hi there - I received an overwhelming response to my question about
Acquisitions and ILL partnerships.  Thank you to everyone who took the
time to respond.

For those who requested a summary of responses, I will have to be brief
considering the volume.  The gist was that all requests were vetted by
ILL staff who determined the level of appropriateness for purchase by
either common sense and intuition, or a rigid set of guidelines.  The
guidelines were mainly comprised of things like availability, currency
and cost.  "Winners" were then passed onto the Acquisitions department
where they were placed on rush order and went to the patron with limited
processing (i.e. not fully processed until returned by the patron).  The
main theme that I noted was that the actual number of purchases to
replace the ILL request were very low.  

What I took away from the summation was that this won't save a whole lot
of time in the ILL department.  This does not make it unworthy of
implementation, and I believe that my institution will most certainly
try our own version, however, at the end of the day, this is not going
to drastically change any workload issues.  Which is what I was hoping
for!!

Thanks again, all!

Jane

Jane Schmidt (formerly Binksma)
Interim Manager, Collection Services Team
Collections Team
Ryerson University Library
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3
416-979-5000 ex. 4855






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