Inter Library Loans wrote:
> Hello ILL community,
>
> We generally get most of our ILLs from the British L ibrary or other
> institutions who charge roughly the same as the BL. However
> occassionally when searching for items for readers I find them on sites
> like Amazon etc at prices cheaper than the cost of a BL loan. Do other
> folk out there ever just buy copies of items in these circumstances and
> supply them to their readers? or buy them and add them to stock?
> Are there any terrible unforeseen implications of doing this?
>
> thanks,
> Alan
>
> Alan Doherty
>
> Interlibrary Loans
> Perry Library
Here at Sheffield we don't buy them for our readers but if we are having
difficulty getting their request and we see it on Amazon we tell the
reader so that they could purchase it themselves.
KathFillingham
DSU
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