Interlibrary Loan of Rare Materials

[Everett Wilkie <ewilkie@IX.NETCOM.COM>]

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Several years ago, RBMS/ACRL promulgated a guideline to govern interlibrary
loan of rare and unique materials.  It is available for the curious at:

<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/rareguidelines.cfm>

If you have ever lent materials using these guidelines--or have ever lent
materials at all--I'd like to hear about your experiences, why you did it,
why you didn't do it, etc.  Note that these guidelines do not cover
exhibitions.  They are intended to cover situations in which you actually
send materials on interlibrary loan to another library for use by a patron
in their reading room.

Everett Wilkie
PO Box 11
Bluffton, TX 78607
325-379-1810
ewilkie@ix.netcom.com