#interlibrary loan

[theinquisitxor]

What is Interlibrary Loan and Why You Should Use It

Inter-library loan (or commonly referred to as ILL) is a system of borrowing and lending in most public and academic libraries. Basically, if there is a book you want that your home library doesn’t have, they will borrow it from the nearest library and loan it out to you

Using interlibrary loan gets you stuff your library doesn’t have! Want an academic text , but it’s way too expensive? A college will send it to you! There’s a novel your library doesn’t have that you want to read? Get a copy by filling out a ILL form!

Need a college textbook? You guessed it!

It’s typically a free service in all public and college libraries

Some libraries have book scanners/copiers. No one will stop you from scanning sections of that textbook/journal/ article

You can also request scans of book chapters/articles

It keeps people (like me) with a job

You literally have access to almost any book /text/ movie in the world

The mail usually comes in quick, like 3-7 days

Interlibrary loan use has gone down since the pandemic, and if you want this awesome service to continue to exist, please use it!

Don’t feel bad that you’re making your library spend $ on getting material for you. Libraries budget for ILL stuff, and using it will only increase that budget!

Interlibrary loan is an amazing resource that not many use/know about. Your library will be ecstatic about you using it and it’s a good indicator for what libraries decide to purchase too!

[sapi-o-phobia]

If you are looking for a book that your library doesn’t have or found a book at a library you cannot check out (like at an academic library): ask your local library if they have an interlibrary loan system !!

ILL (interlibrary loan) is the system where libraries can loan books to other libraries. Because of agreements between libraries, this process is usually free for the patron

It supports both libraries, so try to ask about this before turning to pirate or giving up

[lakecountylibrary]

I have a question: my favorite series is not in your collection. Is there a way for me to donate it in the hopes that someone else will read it? (I just want people to give it a chance so badly!) I already have the books (both ebook and physical copies), so it seems weird to request them when I have zero reason to check them out myself. And I know you accept donations, but I think those are generally for selling and not for the collection…although I could be wrong about that. Thanks for any information you can provide.

A very good question! The answer is: it depends on the series. If it's an older series - older than 2020, say - submitting a purchase request will probably just get you an Interlibrary Loan copy, which wouldn't help in your situation (though it always depends, there are always exceptions, etc etc.) Newer than that, though, and I'd say there's nothing wrong with submitting a purchase request even if you own the book! Just be aware that there's always a chance it'll be ILL'd instead. If it was me, I'd hedge my bets and start there - ILL costs you nothing. If your book does end up ILL'd, you can simply return it and, if you wish, proceed with the donation option. Now, you are correct that, for the most part, donated books are used in our book sale except in special cases (like if the author is local, or if we desperately need more copies because the holds list is out of control). However, since you asked, if you wanted to donate the series I would suggest bringing it in in person and telling the staff when you hand it over that you would like it to go to Technical Services to be considered for the collection. If you have to, say you talked to someone from the library on social media and they said we'd take a look (I'll back you up on that!) Now, that's not a guarantee anything you donate will be added to the collection. I certainly don't want you to waste your money purchasing the series again thinking this is a sure thing. We do have to run everything through our collection development criteria, which means inspecting the quality of the item, examining professional reviews, and considering the reputation of the publisher, among other things. The items may end up in the book sale anyway. I wish I had better news for you. But feel free to let us know what the series is and why you love it - we always answer asks publicly and maybe someone will see it and pick it up! Maybe you'll kickstart the fandom!

Alternatively, everyone put in the replies your fav underloved series so that anon here doesn't have to expose themselves if they don't want :) Good luck!!

[lydiardbell]

Two sentence horror story

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[gothbubbe]

my interlibrary loan came in today

[the-lady-hestia]

I finally climbed the mountain that is The Stormlight Archive (up to this point, Stormlight 5 please come out soon)

On to Mistborn!!!!

[ragsy]

I think I have a fair amount of mutuals who are avid readers, so I come seeking your advice:

Should I read Piranesi or The Last Unicorn next

[religio-iapygiorum]

THANA

.: iapygian deity associated with deer :.

[IMG TRANSCRIPTION (mirrored): Ψana. IMG SOURCE: F.G. D’Andria, Archeologia dei Messapi (Bari: Edipuglia, 1990), 232.]

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Inscriptions dedicated to Thana are found in several locations across Messapia. One inscription is on a pottery sherd found at the sanctuary of Scala di Furno, where deer bones were also found, and surrounding sherds can be reconstructed to form part of the image of a fawn.

A few scholars suggest that since she is clearly associated with deer, Thana was thus syncretized with Artemis. However, plenty of inscriptions devoted to Artemis (spelled Artamis in Messapic) are also found across Iapygia, so they seem to have been two separate deities in this time and place.

Thana is also the name of a goddess found in Illyria (nearby in the modern-day Western Balkans), where she is a goddess of forestry and hunting. Thana is often portrayed with different iconography from Roman Diana or Greek Artemis; in Illyria, she’s nearly always paired with the deity Vidasus, another woodlands god.

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Sources:

J.-L. Lamboley, Recherches sur les messapiens (Roma: École Française de Rome, 1996), 431-432.

Maria Teresa Laporta, “Divinità femminili e titoli sacerdotali nel Pantheon messapico,” in Studia di antichità linguistiche in memoria di Ciro Santoro (Bari: Cacucci, 2006), 217-242.

Ciro Santoro, “Il lessico del ‘divino’ e della religione messapica,” in Atti del IX Convegno dei Comuni Messapici, Peuceti e Dauni, Oria 24-25 novembre 1984 (Bari: Societa di Storia per la Puglia, 1989), 139-80.

[theinquisitxor]

Someone’s interlibrary loan of the Codex Seraphinianus just came in and wow is that a cool book

[nat-20s]

I wanna become an influencer but specifically to influence you to USE PUBLIC LIBRARIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[comfortcomes]

the truly insane tbr of borrowed/free/library/interlibrary loan books i have accumulated this week

[isfjmel-phleg]

I love it when I remember that interlibrary loan, you know, what I do for a living and shouldn't be able to forget easily but somehow forget anyway, exists and I can get The Thing after all.

[vonnebenan]

I’m currently reading the German translation of "Star Trek V: The final frontier" by J.M. Dillard and guess what? Soup ads soup ads!

Yeah … for some reason, the publishing company (Heyne Verlag) decided to insert ads for Maggi soup into quite a few of its books – in a way that’s apparently meant to give the impression that the ads are part of the text. This, for example, says something like "Sybok promises the concerned Scott a source of strength. However, since that is of a purely spiritual nature, it can’t strengthen the reader, who needs something else – something like Maggi instant soup ..."

So far, I’d only seen these ads in books by Diane Duane, but she clearly wasn’t the only "vicitm".

[galaxseacreature]

Me, finishing The Shadow of the Torturer:

Wow, lotta weird stuff crammed in those last few chapters at the end! Can't wait to listen to Shelved by Genre and see what they make of it

Shelved by Genre:

[astriiformes]

It's summer campus tour season and I'm just going to keep thinking about last Thursday when I went to go drop some library books off en route to the con while already dressed as Andreas and got some absolutely stellar looks from all the incoming freshmen. Welcome to college, kids, I hope you're ready for things to get weird.