Cooperation Today

First thank you for all of your hard work and for moving this process along in a professional manner.

I would like to comment on fees on no key libraries. Recently, a library with no key had a delivery. Thru no fault of their own, the driver waited 30 to 45 minutes. No one showed at the library. Therefore the “no key” library’s patrons did not receive their materials plus it created a hardship for the other library users on the rest of the route. Our library had given up hope of receiving a delivery that day when the driver arrived late in the afternoon. With limited staff, we scrambled and tried to contact all of our users who had materials. The committee is proposing a fee for “no Key” libraries that do not have any one available for pick-ups. Our library users, staff, and I support a meaningful fee to be charged in the event a “no key” library has no one available. If you need help calculating a meaningful fee, please let me know. To all of those libraries that do not give a key to library systems for delivery, please be aware you are not only hurting your own patrons by not having staff available, but all of the patrons who remain on the rest of your route.

Sincerely,
Cristy Stupegia
Sparta Public Library

The DOG system will be voluntary correct. Considering the amount of ILL’s that move through our desk on a daily basis there is no possibility of banding together all of one library’s items.

@Barbara Rhodes
Good evening, Barbara,
The delivery committee discussed this very question at our meeting in Effingham today! DOG (delivery on the go) is intended to move items to destination libraries following your library on a particular route. The idea is that those items will not first travel to the System headquarters to be sorted by staff and then delivered to the destination library the next day that library receives delivery.

We recognize this is a small portion of the ILL that goes through your library. The remainder will be routed to System headquarters, sorted and sent to destination libraries. Delivery and sorting is a labor intensive process, and the committee has been looking for reasonable efficiencies within the process. The standards seek cooperation from member libraries and ask (when appropriate) that libraries bundle together items for the same destination library. There is no expectation that member libraries bundle all materials for each library, however if you have several similar items (i.e. paperbacks) going to the same destination it would be helpful if those items could be bundled together with rubber bands. Items prepared in this way do make the sorting process go much quicker, and will reduce the time needed to turn materials around for the next day of delivery.

I hope this answers your question,
Leslie

A very ambitious game with lots of content and great gameplay.check this site.Download it at: bit.ly/freescrambledpictures