Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 1/29/12 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/02/04/reference-question-postdate-ill/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:18:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Herzog http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/02/04/reference-question-postdate-ill/#comment-5884 Brian Herzog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:18:32 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2859#comment-5884 @Andrew: I agree – ILL is way more complex than people think it is. Not impossible, but also not just erasing a date on a sheet in a clipboard either.

@Andrew Sherman: I hadn’t even thought of that, but I bet that’s it – I don’t know why the date they requested it from us would have mattered, but it would have if someone wasn’t doing their job properly.

@Matthew: You’re right, they might have had the access, but not the expertise. Another case of, “give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day; give a man access to a library, and he’ll learn how to fish, where the best fishing spots are, how to get there, the best equipment to use, how to make his own fishing equipment, how to clean and cook the fish he catches, how to swim…”

]]> By: Matthew http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/02/04/reference-question-postdate-ill/#comment-5876 Matthew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:28 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2859#comment-5876 It also begs the question, why didn’t the law firm have access to the info through their own sources? Must be a small firm/partnership. Yet ANOTHER example how the library helps the community and small business!

]]> By: Andrew Sherman http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/02/04/reference-question-postdate-ill/#comment-5857 Andrew Sherman Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:16:55 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2859#comment-5857 I think someone told their boss they did it when they didn’t and then didn’t want a date-stamp to make a liar out of him/her. SNL did a funny parody add called “Jiffy Express” for when your package had to be at its destination yesterday, “We’ll take the package… AND the blame” by back-dating packages and simulating shipping delays. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jiffy-express/1356732

]]> By: Andrew http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2012/02/04/reference-question-postdate-ill/#comment-5818 Andrew Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:15:12 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=2859#comment-5818 Speaking as an ILL librarian backdating local library records would technically be possible, but would play havoc with all kinds of records, possibly copyright (depending on how BPL handles theirs) etc. Backdating OCLC records where the ILL request is placed would be impossible without involving OCLC and I doubt they would ever do it, if they even could.

I can’t imagine why anyone would want to backdate records, but the whole thing sounds rather sleazy.

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