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[celandineb]

My usual personal email provider is down right now, so no LJ/IJ/DW notices coming through. On the other hand, I haven't posted since, uh, Sunday, and nothing very interesting then, so I don't think I'm missing any replies

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[realpestilence]

I worked in a library for 8 years, a long time ago. I loved it. We had an interlibrary loan service, too. Do you have a books-by-mail department? Where the patrons reserve an item and get it mailed to them when it comes in? I'm not sure how common that is now; it was rare, when I worked there.

My favorite department was the one where you could fill out a reading profile of your tastes, select from a list of proferred titles, pick how many books you wanted delivered to you however frequently-called Automatic Delivery. I loved working in it, and I loved getting the books through it, often titles I might not have read otherwise, since they'd look for things along the lines of what I'd picked, as well. They had a similar program for kids, too.

I miss the library. D:

[celandineb]

We don't do books by mail, no, but we do have "document delivery" where you can get an article from a journal we own copied, or a book we own pulled from the shelf, to be held for you at circulation, as well as the traditional interlibrary loans.

Nothing like that automatic delivery either! I think that would be more the sort of thing at a public library? Though if a professor (or a student for that matter) requests that the library buy books, if they are purchased they are held for that person when they have been processed, and I suspect some of the subject librarians will put books on hold for profs when they're pretty sure said prof will be interested, even when the prof didn't ask for it.

I always liked working in circ in the public library, way way back when (about 20 years ago now). One reason why I decided to switch from history to librarianship...

[realpestilence]

I worked for a county library system in Orlando. I guess you work for a university? I don't think I've seen ~where you work, just that it's a library.

[celandineb]

Yep, it's a university library. Which has its pluses and minuses, of course; one plus is that it's slower in the summer, meaning I can take three weeks of vacation in a row, and am. *g*