[Web4lib] Libraries: Standing at the Wrong Platform, Waiting for the Wrong Train?

[John Fereira]

At 10:37 AM 10/24/2005, Roy Tennant wrote:
>Bill,
>The nuance here is that her request was cancelled by her own library,
>because it was available locally. Somehow I doubt you photocopy
>articles out of microfilm for your own patrons, despite the fact that
>you do it for the patrons of other libraries via interlibrary loan.

We have that nuance somewhat here at Cornell as well.  We've got a system 
called MyDocumentDelivery which essentially is a system that will scan 
journal articles, book chapters, and other materials in the print 
collection and make them available to a patron on the web as a PDF file.  I 
don't know a lot of the details about the system but presumably that would 
include print material that was obtained via Inter-library loan.

The types of material available includes paper format journal articles, 
book chapters, conference proceedings, parts of musical works, manuscripts, 
newspaper articles, and pamphlets.


Material that is not available through the system includes Microform items, 
rare/fragile items, items already available electronically, items 
restricted by copyright policy, and entire books.

MyDocumentDelivery is a fee based service.


>Roy
>
>On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:56 AM, Drew, Bill wrote:
>
>>If your request had come to our library, we would have filled it by
>>doing the photocopying of the microfilm .  We do this all of the
>>time as
>>part of our obligation of being a member of OCLC and a library.  It is
>>too bad that there are many libraries and librarians out there that do
>>not understand the idea of service.
>>
>>Bill Drew
>>drewwe at morrisville.edu
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
>>>[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Pons,
>>>Lisa (ponslm)
>>>Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:21 AM
>>>To: web4lib at webjunction.org
>>>Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Libraries: Standing at the Wrong
>>>Platform,Waiting for the Wrong Train?
>>>
>>>I will de-lurk to throw in a recent experience that might
>>>illustrate this point...
>>>
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