[Genealib] Interlibrary loan of genealogy books

[Barbara Hill]

Years ago I heard someone give a presentation on this subject.  The 
speaker encouraged listeners to try borrowing genealogy books from 
university libraries, because (genealogically speaking) "they don't 
care what they have."  Unquote.

Barbara Hill
<bhill at calmail.berkeley.edu>



>----- Original Message ----- From: "John LaMont" <John.LaMont at spl.org>
>To: <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
>Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 7:14 PM
>Subject: [Genealib] Interlibrary loan of genealogy books
>
>
>>I'm giving an Interlibrary loan presentation later this week and am 
>>curious to know what type of ILL policies other genealogy libraries 
>>have in place.  Do you loan your genealogy books, and if so, do you 
>>have any restrictions?
>>
>>As an example, we will typically loan family and local histories 
>>but will only photocopy pages from record indexes and 
>>abstracts.  We also have restrictions based on condition, size, and 
>>multi-volume sets.
>>
>>Thanks for your time.
>>
>>John LaMont
>>Librarian - Genealogy
>>History, Travel & Maps
>>The Seattle Public Library
>>
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