Subject: Re: Inter-Library Loan Budget
Date sent: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:38:30 -0000
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From: "Post Graduate Centre, IOM" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Inter-Library Loan Budget
To: Lis-medical
Over here, it has been agreed to "managerially" merge the PGMC library and
the Centre for Nurse Education library until we move up to our new hospital
circa 2003 when we will be providing a multidisciplinary library and
information service from our new library. Amongst many, many other things
that need doing (!), I'm supposed to be standardising policies and
procedures between the 2 libraries which are of course quite different!
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> I''ve decided to start with inter-library loans and had a meeting with my
hospital manager to discuss the way forward. We both (idealistically
perhaps!) believe that all staff shouldn't have to pay for inter-library
loans if they are required for work purposes. This being the case, it would
seem the simplest system would be for the library to pick up the full cost
and so are to make a financial bid to our DHSS for extra money in the
library budget for ILL's. Whilst I can work out what it has cost over the
last 1-2 years to provide ILL's for medical and some nursing staff, I need
to do some "crystal ball gazing" (or creative accounting!) to come up with a
financial starting figure to say how much I think I need to provide ILL's
for all staff (PAMS/community, etc) annually, bearing in mind the effect of
CPD etc.
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> Are there any Lis-Medical libraries who do this and would mind giving me a
rough idea of what it is costing them annually to provide such a ILL
service. Also any general advice, pointers, guidelines etc that I need to
bear in mind in doing this exercise would be much appreciated.
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> Christine
> IOM (PG)
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