Library Humor
Sep. 8th, 2020 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI just looked for A Number of Things.
We actually have a book of that title.
I received a transfer request to send it to main campus, which meant our catalog sowed it as being available, couldn't find it. My associate couldn't find it, and another book requested by the same person also couldn't be found.
So I contacted my counterpart at main campus and told her that the two books could not be found, then we went in to our catalog and marked the two books as missing.
Then I processed the four massive courier bags that came in last week while I was "working from home".
And there I found A Number of Things and the other book.
The weird thing is that every single book in this pile, over a dozen books: I scan them in and every last one comes back Item Not On Loan. WTF? If they're coming back from main campus, clearly they were on loan!
We actually have a book of that title.
I received a transfer request to send it to main campus, which meant our catalog sowed it as being available, couldn't find it. My associate couldn't find it, and another book requested by the same person also couldn't be found.
So I contacted my counterpart at main campus and told her that the two books could not be found, then we went in to our catalog and marked the two books as missing.
Then I processed the four massive courier bags that came in last week while I was "working from home".
And there I found A Number of Things and the other book.
The weird thing is that every single book in this pile, over a dozen books: I scan them in and every last one comes back Item Not On Loan. WTF? If they're coming back from main campus, clearly they were on loan!
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Date: 2020-09-10 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-10 12:32 pm (UTC)On the ILL mailing list I was reading about a library where one of my ILL compatriots is allowed in the library for only 4 hours a day, the UPS guy is only allowed to take 4 bins a day, and she has so many requests coming and going that she barely makes a dent on her backlog. I had two notes in ILLiad hounding me 'Is it there yet? Has our return made it there yet?' since June. After we reopened in August and we finally clarified with our main campus that were going to resume courier service in September - and main campus had a metric f-tonne of books coming back to us, it occurred to me that the two libraries might have couriered the two books rather than mailed them. So I contacted them, sure enough, they couriered them right before they and we shut down in March. As soon as courier service resumed at the end of August, one book appeared in the first courier delivery, second one hasn't showed up yet but hope springs eternal.