[Mcls-print-storage] loan period question

[Sandra G. Yee]

I would be fully supportive of a semester long loan period for faculty.  I
think it makes perfect sense since these are low use materials.  In the
event of an emergency on the part of the lending library I trust we could
work together to recall the needed item sometime after the three week
period.  I doubt we would need that but it would be good to have that
insurance policy.

Sandy

 

 

Sandra Yee

Dean, University Library System

Wayne State University

3100 Adamany Undergraduate Library

Detroit, MI 48202

(313) 577-4020 Phone

(313) 577-5525 Fax

 <mailto:sandra.yee at wayne.edu> sandra.yee at wayne.edu

 

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Hi everyone, 

We're taking a very open and transparent approach to our MI-SPI
deselection process here, and have deselection lists by subject linked
from a LibGuide. We're also meeting with deans, chairs (which we tend to
call "department heads" here), and faculty to explain what we're doing and
why with book and JSTOR/Sage journal deselection. We plan to proceed with
deselection this summer, and are giving faculty until the end of this
semester to justify why we should keep particular books on the deselection
lists. 

One faculty member has expressed the concern that while they can check out
a book from our library for a whole semester, they may only be able to get
a MI-SPI book for 3 weeks with one 3 week renewal via ILL. I've talked
with Doug a little bit about whether we could standardize loan periods for
at least MI-SPI books to a semester, for faculty at all MI-SPI
institutions. I know there are degrees of technical difficulty with doing
this, but it does seem possible to accomplish. 

I understand these are low-use materials that aren't very likely to be
requested by ILL, but I can't completely suppress the "what if" part of my
thoughts. If we don't standardize loan periods, and a faculty member is
disgruntled at only getting a book for up to 6 weeks, we may see pressure
to re-buy the book (assuming it's available). One way to handle this might
be like we handle DDA titles - request it X times via ILL, and on the Yth
request, we re-buy it. 

I'd appreciate your thoughts on the above. 

Scott 

Scott Garrison 
Dean 
Ferris Library for Information, Technology and Education 
Ferris State 
1010 Campus Drive, 410A 
Big Rapids, MI 49307 
voice: (231) 591-3728 
fax: (231) 591-3724 

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