Requesting new titles

Seen on NHAIS-L recently:

Please don't request new books, we'd like our patrons to read them first.

There's nothing in the New Hampshire Interlibrary Loan Protocol Manual that prohibits requesting of new materials. If you get a request for something that's too new to lend according to your own library's ILL policy, just mark the request Will not Supply. If you specify a reason (optional), choosing Policy problem (which covers "too new") means the request will never circle back to your location; choosing In use, on loan leaves open the option for the borrower to retry the request at a later date (not to exceed the need-by date) if other lenders aren't available. You could add a lender note as to when the item might be available at your location but it would be up to the borrower to pay heed. The system does not take lender notes into consideration when routing requests.

Lender strings are built by the system and cannot be edited by the borrower even if the person creating the request knows you will not lend new books. The majority of libraries in the NHAIS ILL System have their local catalogs connected to the system via Z39.50 so if a title is available in their local catalog it is available (generally speaking) to the ILL system.

[This post edited 1/17/24 to update links.]