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Don't charge extra for LDD requests! |
As PubMed gets easier and better, more and more of our library users will find out about good articles and will want an effective way to request those articles from their libraries. Loansome Doc is perfect--especially for the librarian! What would you rather receive: 1) a scratchy note with misspellings and an unreadable date or 2) a perfect request that comes to you through a medium you already use every day--DOCLINE?
You can't tell if a Loansome Doc request from another library (an LDD request) is from the library's primary users or an outsider. The vast majority of Loansome Doc requests in our region are made by primary users who are requesting articles from their own institution's library. Similarly, a non-LD DOCLINE request might very well be for an unaffiliated, paying customer of the requesting library.
So, please don't penalize your fellow librarians who have learned to take advantage of Loansome Doc! If you need to know if a user is affiliated with the requesting library, you'll have to find another way (perhaps asking the requesting library to tell you in the comment line). Nothing about Loansome Doc requests reveals affiliation or lack thereof!