{"id":780,"date":"2016-09-14T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T13:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/?p=780"},"modified":"2019-06-26T14:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:50:03","slug":"multiplying-the-power-of-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/multiplying-the-power-of-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplying the power of place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/power-of-place.jpg\" alt=\"power-of-place\" width=\"1160\" height=\"370\" \/>It\u2019s easy to find digital items online\u2014pictures, videos, maps, etc.\u2014that can connect you to another place, person or library. What may not be as immediately apparent is that physical objects can also connect users to libraries in many different places. As someone who works with our interlibrary loan data, I see fantastic examples of distant libraries establishing relationships that leverage physical collections. In doing so, they improve how local users experience their local library.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s not just the long tail<\/h2>\n<p>There are some popular misconceptions about interlibrary lending and resource sharing. Yes, it\u2019s sometimes about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_tail\">the long tail<\/a>,\u201d which for libraries usually means difficult-to-find items and out-of-print materials. But often, it\u2019s not. Best sellers <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/four-interlibrary-loan-trends-to-watch-in-2016\/\">make up a large portion<\/a> of the top ILL requests we track because ILL helps libraries fill needs wherever they find them, not just for highly specific, academic resources.<\/p>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.oclc.org%2Fnext%2Fmultiplying-the-power-of-place%2F&#038;text=ILL%20helps%20libraries%20fill%20needs%20wherever%20they%20find%20them%E2%80%A6not%20just%20for%20academic%20texts.&#038;related' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ILL helps libraries fill needs wherever they find them\u2026not just for academic texts. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.oclc.org%2Fnext%2Fmultiplying-the-power-of-place%2F&#038;text=ILL%20helps%20libraries%20fill%20needs%20wherever%20they%20find%20them%E2%80%A6not%20just%20for%20academic%20texts.&#038;related' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n<p>One of the reasons I love being part of the OCLC resource sharing community is the strength of the community itself and its desire to fill those needs. Resource sharing librarians are some of the most gregarious and tenacious people I\u2019ve ever met, and you can see that sense of purpose in how they take care of their users\u2014and in the stories they tell about their favorite ILL relationships.<\/p>\n<h2>Transatlantic \u201cQuests\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>While reviewing ILL data and trends recently, we came across some great examples of stories like that. For example, we found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jocolibrary.org\/\">Johnson County Library<\/a> in Kansas, USA, was requesting titles from <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.hertfordshire.gov.uk\/services\/Libraries-learning-and-local-history\/Libraries-learning-and-local-history.aspx\">Hertfordshire Public Library<\/a>, just outside London in the UK. Johnson County wasn\u2019t requesting from other UK libraries, just this one. Why?<\/p>\n<p>We dug a little deeper and we found that the titles were from two juvenile fantasy series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaquestbooks.co.uk\/\"><em>Beast Quest<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seaquestbooks.co.uk\/\"><em>Sea Quest<\/em><\/a>. In talking with Linda Riehl at the Johnson County Library, she mentioned a patron who has requested many of the 78 titles in the series. She established a relationship with Tracy Jackson in Hertfordshire\u2014as they have the entire series available\u2014and so far, Linda has borrowed 38 from the series for her patron. This is a great example of how global cooperation helps get people what they want from their local libraries, even if the materials have to cross the ocean to get there.<\/p>\n<h2>Mars, prisons and Hollywood<\/h2>\n<p>Every year, we publish our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/four-interlibrary-loan-trends-to-watch-in-2016\/\">top ten most-requested titles<\/a>. These titles are always best sellers or titles like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/martian-a-novel\/oclc\/846889319&amp;referer=brief_results\">The Martian<\/a><\/em> that have recently been made in to a film. Along with the ILL community, my team and I enjoy predicting what\u2019s going to come up in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s also fascinating are the titles that stay in the most-requested list. One such title has endured for six years now\u2014it\u2019s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/48-laws-of-power\/oclc\/45062606\"><em>The 48 Laws of Power<\/em><\/a> by Robert Greene. It is a US best seller, having moved more than 1.2 million copies. No one on my team had heard of this book, and we\u2019re all avid readers, so we did a bit more digging. What we found was that the libraries requesting this title were doing so on behalf of the prison libraries they serve. It seems that <em>The 48 Laws of Power<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_48_Laws_of_Power\">something of a cult title<\/a>, read as a guide to establishing influence and authority by both the Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike.<\/p>\n<h2>Every story tells another story<\/h2>\n<p>What can we learn about the future of resource sharing from these stories? What can you learn about the community you serve from their requests? These are questions we need to be answering based on real data, interviews, research and follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>OCLC\u2019s Kathleen Gesinger <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oclc.org\/next\/breaking-the-curse-of-knowledge\/\">recently wrote<\/a> about breaking the \u201ccurse of knowledge\u201d\u2014our tendency to assume other people know what we do. We all make a lot of assumptions about library users. With more than 8,000 libraries in the WorldCat resource sharing community, we can certainly pool our stories, ideas and data in order to better serve users\u2019 actual needs, not just our impressions. Adding that kind of rigor to the compassion and energy I see every day from resource sharing librarians would be awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Question\u2026What surprising requests have come through your resource sharing services? Let us know on Twitter with the hashtag #OCLCnext<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to find digital items online\u2014pictures, videos, maps, etc.\u2014that can connect you to another place, person or library. What may not be as immediately apparent is that physical objects can also connect users to libraries in many different places. 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