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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Yeah. I got a look in exactly the same Swahili language about whether I could ask to inter library loan a book by email - so I could put in the details rather than have the not-too-bright local library types with less than up to date database searching skills take 15 minutes to find while I am standing there waiting.
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Our public library does Inter-Library Loan requests via e-mail. You fill in the details, including an ISBN#, and there's a box to tick if you only want
that edition. Even before that, it was the same info on paper in-person - never a need for them to do anything, but accept the form from you.
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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Is it ePub they support, or (erkk!!) PDF? (Pardon my ignorance, but I've never actually used Overdrive before.)
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Our library has mostly Epub Overdrives, some PDF (although a fair number of books come in both formats, not just PDF only), and a smaller amount of Mobi.
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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Anyway, the demographic of my area is swinging sharply towards non-English-speaking being in the majority (mostly Arabic, Indian and east Asian), so the library system has decided to put the bulk of its funding into those languages, rather than expanding (or even maintaining!) its English-language facilities. I guess I understand why (though I think we Aussies have a habit of making everybody else more "worthy" than ourselves, even in our own country), but it's pretty obvious that it makes me unhappy.
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We have some Overdrive books in Chinese, though few, if any, in Spanish.