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[thedarlingone]

JESUS COCKWAFFLES

I went to check on my current library system's interlibrary loan policy, because clearly I don't have enough commitments without starting up Read All the Newberys again. ;P

They have a restriction against ILLing the same book twice in twelve months. O_O "You can't get via Interlibrary Loan: Books that you borrowed via Interlibrary Loan in the past year. You can only request a title once per year."

WHAT THE ACTUAL FLYING FUCKNUGGETS?! Who does that? What on earth is the possible rationale? I can understand "you can't have the US's sole library copy of some ancient book constantly on ILL" (although rare books are restricted separately), I could see something like a three-month restriction if there was simply too much volume, but a year?! What the kriff?

I mean, this doesn't interfere in any technical way with how Read All the Newberys works, but if shit comes up (as it so often does), I couldn't catch up on a missed book for a year? I just. What. WHATMST.

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[isis]

That's really weird! I wonder if my library system has similar restrictions.

[thedarlingone]

Every library system I've lived in has had different restrictions and methods, but this is one I hadn't encountered before.