Hi Beth
I second Mark's concern here. Around 20% of the requests that we get from students and staff are for items already in stock, so we're not even considering letting users request directly. We simply don't have the money to support this.
At their roadshow event in Glasgow last year, the BL folk did say that Plymouth University was in favour of this option, so maybe Graham can advise on how to control this?
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Hi Beth,
another issue would be the fact that they are bypassing the library collection and potentially requesting items held at their library. How would you ensure they don't do this?
Kind regards,
Mark
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We're trying to plan ahead...and I wondered, are any of you thinking of letting your students register and request directly through BLDSS (when that bit goes live)?
(or have any of you decided not to)?
When I try to think about how it might work, I'm struggling (if they register and request library privilege - how do we sort out a copyright signature, and if the request fails, will we have to type it manually into our own systems to request it from somewhere else?...).
So I wondered if anyone had thought it through, and come up with an answer that might work?
Happy to summarise for the list, if there is an answer out there.
Thanks,
Beth
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