On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Fay Henexson wrote:
>>
> The question of to ILL, or not to ILL -- I'm not very
> familiar with the logistics of consulting, but unless
> the consultant places a full-time employee on-site in
> that library, there are plenty of practical reasons not
> to provide ILLs to an unstaffed library (in addition to
> the ethical reasons already discussed): if you need to
> recall the book, if it's overdue, if it gets lost - who
> ya gonna call? A consultant who is not on-site full-time,
> and may have no authority to enforce library policies?
> The switchboard, in an effort to locate the actual staff
> member who has custody of the book? [Good luck]
>
I agree. I used ILL in my initial post only because earlier
writers on this topic posed ILL as one possible service that could be
denied to whoever ends up working at B&M. I did not, nor would I ever,
advocate filling an ILL request to a firm that did not have a
professional librarian in place that could be counted upon to keep track
of my material.
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