CDL: Supporting PhD program needs via ILL? [Response #6]

From: Lynn Sipe <lsipe_at_usc.edu>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:29:04 -0700
To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
>
> From:
> Tom Izbicki <tizbicki_at_rci.rutgers.edu>
>
>
> Back in my lower middle management days, I estimated that 3 uses of 
> the same book meant that you should have bought it.  ILL is not truly 
> free.  There are costs.
>
> Plus copyright clearance limits the number of free copies from the 
> same journal per year.  I believe it was 5 copies of any article.  I 
> kept a spreadsheet to determine if we were paying at my former library 
> for multiple copies year after year from the same journals.  
> Fortunately, there were few repeat titles.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
Received on Thu May 08 2008 - 01:44:07 EDT