Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!watcsc!omynous
From: omynous@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann)
Newsgroups: uw.library,uw.general
Subject: Re: Term Loans
Message-ID: <1989Aug11.041725.19738@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Aug 89 08:17:20 GMT
References: <15787@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: omynous@watcsc.UUCP (Shannon Mann)
Distribution: uw
Organization: University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
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In article <15787@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ajhainer@violet.waterloo.edu (Allen J. Hainer) writes:
>
>   Yesterday I posted this to uw.general.  I should of cross posted it
>to uw.library, but up until about 20 minitues ago I didn't know it existed.

Isn't technology wonderful!  My reply to this posting got to uw.library
before the original! :-)

>   Since responses to it are now going here, I decided to post the original.
>(I have found the reminants of a similar discussion here, so I'm sorry if
>I'm beating a dead cat)

A dead cat?  ...no but perhaps a dead horse... :-)

Seriously, having books returned from term loan is, on the average, as fast
as having them returned from regular loan.  Please see my previous posting
for reasons why.

>                      -al (ajhainer@violet.waterloo.edu)

P.S.  I agree that term loan can be abused.  Having name release mandatory
is an excellent solution.  I would even like to see the researchers release
their names, privacy arguments aside.  (Even the students should have their
privacy guarded.  If the students are forced to release their names, so 
should all patrons.)

There is an excellent argument for name release.  People with similar interests
may meet others while looking for particular books.  This will encourage 
much networking (Time to go to bed.  My speech patterns are getting strange...)