OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program
Post date: Jan 16, 2019 11:31:43 PM
If a visiting faculty member from a non-ARCHE, non-GETS institution asks if they can have borrowing privileges, the answer may be yes! We are members of two specific OCLC programs that include on-site use and/or borrowing privileges for affiliates of member libraries (defined subsets of the total OCLC membership). The programs are:
The OCLC Research Libraries Partnership SHARES Program: https://www.oclc.org/research/activities/shares/partners.html
Provides for onsite library access for faculty & grad students of partner libraries; however, since we don’t restrict access to our building the way large research libraries in other major urban areas do, we have included borrowing privileges, as well. Some other SHARES libraries do this, as well.
Onsite access/borrowing privileges are not automatic -- SHARES libraries may email or call a visiting faculty/grad student’s home library to confirm that they are in good standing & can deny access if not
Note that our faculty & grad students visiting more restrictive SHARES libraries (like Columbia, NYU, etc.) may be given access to the library (which they would not otherwise have) but not borrowing privileges. That’s entirely up to each participating library
It’s always best to check with any other library about privileges before showing up at their door.
The OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program: https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/membership/Reciprocal-Faculty-Borrowing-Program.pdf
Provides exactly what it says—borrowing privileges for faculty members of participating libraries.
It’s a long-standing but very poorly publicized and, therefore, underutilized program – so much so that many member libraries don’t know much, if anything, about it.
There used to be ID cards for home libraries to issue to traveling faculty but now there’s just the membership list & whatever member libraries choose to do re: setting up accounts for visiting faculty.
Borrowing privileges are not automatic -- participating libraries may email or call a visiting faculty member’s home library to confirm that they are in good standing & can deny privileges if not
Again, for our faculty who may want to borrow from participating libraries, it’s always best to check in advance with the library/ies of interest before showing up there.
Please let me know if there are questions about these or any other reciprocal library use/borrowing programs with which Emory may be affiliated.
Margaret W. Ellingson
Head of Interlibrary Loan & Course Reserves