ILL2.0

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So, in the bad old days, we shuttled books and articles back and forth between libraries.

Now, in the days of ILL2.0, where much of our collection is electronic and governed by license agreements, we shuttle people back and forth between libraries. “We’re sorry, you’ll have to actually go to St. Olaf to read that. No, we can’t have them print and send a copy. Yes, I know it’s sitting there online, and we have access to the internet from here, too. And yes, I know we’re a consortium with cooperative borrowing privileges. Even so…”

Awesome.

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  • Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 8:50 pm Marie
    Ugh, i hate this so much. I wish we didn't upload our e-book holdings to OCLC because people think they can e-borrow them, but they can't. They have to come over. It stinks.
  • Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 8:52 pm RepoRat
    thank you, bookmarked for publishing-and-libraries this summer :)
  • Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 8:52 pm lris
    Meanwhile, we order things from Greater-ILL-Land that Olaf has because that way people here can read it.
  • Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 8:55 pm Catherine Pellegrino
    If I had a nickel for every time I had to explain to a student or faculty member, "yes, you can access that, but you have to be physically ON the campus across the street to do so..."
  • Thursday, January 10th, 2013 at 9:01 pm Steele Lawman
    We need to loan not items but logins.

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