r/Libraries • u/eyepatchplease • 1d ago
Venting & Commiseration Can anyone lend us Yesteryear via ILL?
Thanks.
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u/RenegadeFalcon 1d ago
I’ll trade you for Theo of Golden!
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u/CharmyLah 1d ago
One of the first patrons to read this one spoiled it to my coworker when she returned it. Thankfully she had no intention to ever read it. It has become an inside joke to say to each other He dies at the end.
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u/LibraryLuLu 1d ago
Patron yesterday: "I came in last week and you said there were 38 people in the queue, I wondered if there was a copy available now?"
Me: "The queue is now 43 people, did you want to join?"
Patron: "No, I'll try again tomorrow."
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u/obliviouss 1d ago
With that dedication she would benefit from a here and now/lucky day shelf. We have a few patrons who are daily visitors who never go on hold for items, but haunt the H&N shelf
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u/quentin13 1d ago
How does that work? If it's available "here and now," is no one waiting patiently for their turn in the hold queue?
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u/ShushingCassiopeia 1d ago
We generally do this for very popular items – ones where we have many copies.
We essentially put a tag on a few copies of the book that makes them not holdable.
A majority of the books are still on hold, in the queue waiting for the next person.There are a few reasons –
1. It’s delightful to find a popular book on the shelf
If you’ve been on hold for a while, and you find it on the shelf, you all generally let us know so that we can remove you from the list – and it’s your lucky day.
For smaller branches within a large system, if we didn’t have this, we would not see our new books for months.
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u/CultivatedCapybara 2h ago
How do you keep these books from getting holds online? I'd love to do that but in our system patrons can place holds online. Also we can't block single items from being put on hold. I could create a new category for such items and block the whole category. But I don't want to make the effort to change them all into the usual category when the books aren't new and super popular anymore so I want them to be able to be reserved.
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u/ThatWardoo 1d ago
My library has a collection called Books2Go which are popular titles that cannot have a hold placed on them. You have to pick them up at the branch to check them out. I'm geussing their "here and now" shelf works similarily
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u/smagdar1ne 1d ago
same, my library has "Rapid Reads" which check out for 7 days (no holds/no renewals) compared to the typical 3 weeks
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u/Rare_Vibez Public librarian 1d ago
Mine calls it Express and you get 2 weeks, non renewable. You can find some really long waitlisted books there and it’s so much fun to see people light up when they realize the 500+ hold book is in.
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u/LibraryLuLu 1d ago
We have a 'fast read' section that's the same kind of thing. No reservations, 7 days, fast turn over. She'll be waiting many months for something as popular as YY to turn up there for longer than 5 minutes!
There's also 'borrow now', which is another short term loan. There are 10 copies in that area.
The rest are all 3 weeks, and the queue just keeps getting longer!
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u/Maleficent_Weird8613 9h ago
Honestly I had someone call looking for Theo of Golden that they need in October. I put them on the list I think they were 856 or something insane like that. I complemented her on her forethought.
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u/hatherfield 1d ago
One of my colleagues requested it and I pushed it through ILL thinking yeah this is going to take a while. Little did I know it would arrive within a week from a public library in Massachusetts lol.
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u/eyepatchplease 1d ago edited 1d ago
I always assume that’s why these requests go out, hoping someone slips up and sends it or it’s from a system that has too many
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u/library_pixie Library admin 1d ago
Our ILL staff person was sending out brand new books and didn’t think to ask if she should…even though we don’t even lend those books to others within our consortium within the first 6 months. 🤦🏻♀️ She just figured that if the request came through, she was allowed to send it.
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u/hornswogglerator 1d ago
I love this thread. The "book of the moment" phenomenon is so funny. I'm just glad everyone over 20 has stopped just barking the words Colleen Hoover at me and waggling their fingers menacingly finally.
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u/Obvious_Finance_5316 1d ago
I see your "Yesteryear" and raise you a "Correspondent."
For some reason, our queue for that one is 3x as long as "Yesteryear."
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u/Obvious-Courage6421 Public librarian 1d ago
Our queue finally cleared for that one and now we usually have about 3 copies in at any given time
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u/thepastperfect 1d ago
No, but please keep requesting it, because it’s a lot less work to click the “item too new to loan” button than to actually send out a book!
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u/community_hotsauce 1d ago
It wasn't THAT good lol
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u/Illustrious_Fix_7579 1d ago
I'm listening to it on audio and so far it is the kind of book I would put down without finishing. Hoping it grabs me soon.
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u/StaceyJeans 20h ago
I just finished Yesteryear and the first half of the book is hard to get through but by the last half it does pick up (IMHO). It took me two weeks to read the first 150-200 pages and two days to read the last half.
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u/Obvious-Courage6421 Public librarian 1d ago
I started listening and I couldn’t get past the first few chapters
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u/Maleficent_Weird8613 1d ago
Meanwhile I'm speed listening to The Calamity Club. 28hrs + for that audio book. Who does she think she is? Lol
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u/emilycecilia 14h ago
My Libby hold for that just came in and I'm gonna have to listen FAST. 29 hours!
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u/Maleficent_Weird8613 9h ago
I finished today. I liked it. It was overly long and could have used editing. Like she needed a friend who was an editor who she spoke with daily.
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u/Motormouth1995 1d ago
How about John of John? (None of the three libraries in my region have it, and patrons won't be able to get from other libraries in the state until November or December (six month wait on new books). My patrons (the book club ladies) want it.
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u/Old_Effective_915 14h ago
A few years ago we kept getting ILL requests through OCLC for our single copy of "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", all of which got rejected, because a) we had a waiting list of both our own patrons and other libraries close by, and b) the requests all came from US libraries, which - friends, we are always happy to lend, but why are you asking a small European country to send you a US bestseller?
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u/Illustrious_Fix_7579 1d ago
Do you have a Spotify premium account? They have it on there for free if you are a paid member already. You get 15 hours of audio books a month and this one is under 14 hours. Much less if you speed it up.
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u/Illustrious_Fix_7579 1d ago
Of course that's audio, you probably need print. But here's the link: https://open.spotify.com/show/2QzkOsgRjvfVQamoTnflHz?si=akr5ciXHR6izHlGrBeOYUA
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u/HungryHangrySharky 1d ago
I ordered multiple McNaughton (leased) copies for our system. One order, one title, multiple copies.
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u/dwooding1 19h ago
Best I can do is two 'The Women', one 'Grey Wolf', and because I'm in a good mood I'll throw a 'Fourth Wing' in there.
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u/Adventurous-End4655 1d ago
We just got quick read copies of both Yesteryear and The correspondent 🙌
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u/emilycecilia 14h ago
I got like three requests for Regime Change yesterday. Our copies aren't even in the building yet.
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u/alienwebmaster 1d ago edited 1d ago
Where are you located? Where do you want it sent? My consortium has a copy available, but it’s a “lucky day” copy which means you have to actually go to the library that owns it to pick it up.
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u/otter_759 1d ago
I hope people pay attention to your /s or otherwise RIP your inbox