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Public and university libraries often must use other libraries' collections
to meet their own users' needs. They do this through the Interlibrary
loan
process. Your local library will take the information you provide,
ascertain
where a book is located, and formally request it from the owning library.
Then, you must wait for the postal service to do it's work.
Various cooperative agreements have been developed
between libraries,
and they differ from state-to-state, interstate, regionally, nationally
or
internationally. The borrowing library agrees to certain requirements,
including monitoring the use of the book, and the obligation to return
it to
the owning library in unchanged condition by a specified date.
Sometimes
these books may be checked out of your local library. Other times,
they must
be read in the library. Copying is usually allowed (under close
supervision
if the book is rare or fragile). Some books will not be allowed
to leave an
owning library, but they may agree to copy specific pages and send
them to
your local library for you. There may be charges for
shipping/handling/copying.
What is the advantage to you? You may borrow
lace books recommended
by Arachnes and determine which will be the easiest for you to learn
from.
Previewing books before you mail order them is a good idea, especially
if you
have a limited book budget. And -- this may be the only way you
can get to
read out-of-print and rare lace books!
Librarians have access to a whole spectrum
of books on library policies. I
wanted to be sure this suggestion would be good for Arachnes far and
wide.
One book I referenced indicated there are agreements between libraries
in
North America (includes Canada/Puerto Rico/Virgin Islands) and beyond
(Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel,
Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom).
It is worth a try for Arachnes in these countries to ask locally about
Interlibrary Book Loans.
You should go to your library prepared to provide
information about yourself,
plus: Author(s), Title, Publisher, Edition, Date of Publication,
and ISBN or
Library of Congress Number of the book(s) you wish to borrow.
Your library
should be able to tell you in advance if there will be a fee, and what
the
maximum you will have to pay would be. |
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