[PADG:1301] Re: ILL Stickers (fwd)

[Paul Conway <paul.conway@xxxxxxxx>]

Nancy,

This is excellent detective work.

The following URL links to an example of the sticker.  Get a load of the
example ILLiad uses to demonstrate the sticker and then shed a little tear.
 If you back out of the URL, you can get to a description of the borrowing
program.

Now for the next step.  Should PADG, ALA, a self-appointed group, or
someone draft a letter to ILLiad about their little sticker?

http://www.illiad.oclc.org/images/guidedtour/loanlabelcapture_large.gif

At 11:44 AM 4/30/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Our ILL guru here at Davis sent me the following very interesting and
>informative message about these stickers.
>
>------------------------------------------
>   Nancy Kushigian
>   Digital Initiatives and Preservation Librarian, 
>     English Literatures and Classics Bibliographer
>   Shields Library
>   University of California, Davis
>   Davis, California 95616
>   530-754-4337
>   njkushigian@xxxxxxxxxxx
>------------------------------------------
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:12:02 -0700
>From: Gail Nichols <gmnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Nancy Kushigian <njkushigian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [PADG:1297] ILL Stickers (fwd)
>
>We have received these stickers from Virginia Tech.  They are produced by
>the Illiad Interlibrary Loan software.  When we received the first one, I
>personally sent an email to ILL at Virginia Tech telling them not to use
>them on our books.  When we received the second one back from Virginia Tech,
>we stopped loaning books to them, and told them why we would no longer loan
>to them.  A year ago Illiad was sold to OCLC, and the product is becoming
>more used.  I suspect that more institutions than we know are using them,
>but removing them before sending books back to the lending library.  It
>would be very helpful if the preservation folks would make some noise about
>this practice; little libraries (that don't have long term preservation
>concerns) don't understand why this is a bad practice.
>
>Here is a web site listing current users of Illiad
>(http://www.illiad.oclc.org/users/index.stm).  There are a number of ARL
>users, but of course it's not possible to know for sure who uses the labels
>as part of their process.
>--Gail


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Paul Conway
Head, Preservation Department