ILL forms on Web

[Christopher Shaffer]

On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, William Oldfield wrote:

> If a person comes into the Library and uses our Electronic form (which we
> prefer) or fills out a paper ILL request, they must be valid users or our
> ILL departemnt does not fill the order.  I am sure that any ILL department
> checks to see if a borrower is a valid user before working on the order and
> the electronic submission method is no different.

I wouldn't be so sure - I've worked in (unnamed) libraries where the ILL 
department didn't check every request for patron eligibility, because the 
technology made it so much of a hassle.

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