Comments on: Interlibrary Loaning

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:38:08 +0000

I’m the only ILL coordinator for my county and I can definitely say that having a state wide catalog would be fantastic! And I too get excited every time I get a new request. It’s just one fun puzzle after another.

By: Rebekka

Rebekka — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:37:30 +0000

Stories like these makes me so grateful that I work at a Danish library. We do have a national catalogue and that makes everything so much easier. Especially because it is set up to facilitate effecient ILL.
And I agree with you re: the thrill. Especially if the patron starts out with “You probably can’t help me with this” and it turns out that you can. Love that.

By: Keri

Keri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:25:27 +0000

I used to work in Massachusetts and while their statewide ILL is awesome, the catalog was SO SLOW.

Now I’m in Jersey. JerseyCat is almost as slow but slightly better organized so you don’t have to click through as many links to find the right one.

Then again, in my new consortium, all holds and requests are placed manually, where in MBLN everything was automated and lovely.