Dear Penny,
Here at TalNet (ZW/P6) we only apply to the Bodleian if all else fails,
since your stock is (quite rightly) for library use only. Our readers
prefer to have loanable items if at all possible. Of course, if they
are really desperate to see an item, they have no choice. Therefore, in
practice, we rarely send requests to you. Raising your prices would not
deter us from carrying on with this policy - unless the new price is
astronomical! Under the old back-up system, when the price was raised
to £10+ we actually made a policy decision NOT to send to backup because
of the very much increased price. So, to answer your questions:
1. No (with the proviso given above).
2. Yes (ditto).
3. Yes.
Eleri Jones
TalNet,
Caernarfon Library,
Pavilion Road,
Caernarfon
LL55 1AS
Tel: 01286 679843
Fax: 01286 671137
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-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Roberts [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 10 April 2002 10:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Price of requests
Greetings!
You will all be aware by now (because I mention it at every
available opportunity!) that we at the RSL (OX/U-8) are finding it
impossible to cope with all the extra requests that we have been
receiving since we ceased to be a BL Back-Up in October.
Management have suggested raising the price of ILLs to deter
libraries from sending requests to us. It is likely that this higher
price would apply to *all* the Bodleian libraries.
So:
1. If we raise the price of ILLs would it deter any of you from sending
requests to RSL (or the other Bodleian libraries)?
2. Would it depend on how much we raised the price?
3. Would you be willing to write the necessary acceptance of price on
the request before sending it to us?
Penny
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Penny Roberts
Document Supply Department
Radcliffe Science Library
Oxford University
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