[PADG:1302] Re: ILL Stickers (fwd)

[Lorraine Olley <l-olley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't seen these labels, but just want to point out that there's 
nothing wrong with the sticker per se, as long as it is affixed to a flag 
or wrapper and not to the volume itself.


At 03:19 PM 04/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>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



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