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Requested Title |
Borrow or Purchase |
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Title was published over two years ago and is generally on the
shelf at other MVLC libraries. |
Borrow |
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Title was published in the last year and is generally on the shelf
at MVLC libraries that purchased it. |
Borrow or purchase if we think it would be useful to us |
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Title was published in the last year and is generally out at most
MVLC libraries. |
Purchase one or more copies |
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Title is brand new, has decent reviews, and hasn't circulated yet
in most libraries. |
Purchase |
| Title is
available at several MVLC libraries, it is a title we should own,
but the patron needs it in a hurry. |
Borrow, but
also purchase |
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Title is not owned by MVLC libraries, but has good to excellent
reviews and fits our selection criteria. |
Purchase |
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Title is not owned by MVLC libraries, has fair to poor reviews,
but is the kind of book we collect. |
Borrow from VirtCat |
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Title is not owned by MVLC libraries, nor by Boston, or other area
consortia, but did get good reviews. However, it is too
specialized or academic for our collection. |
Borrow via OCLC |
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We can't find any reviews or information on the title, and the
author is an unknown. |
Borrow if we can find it somewhere |
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We can't find any reviews, nobody owns the title in MVLC, but the
author is known, or we have purchased similar books from the same
publisher, and they have been of decent quality. |
Purchase |
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Title is well reviewed, but too academic, too expensive, or too
specialized for our collection. |
Borrow if we can |
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Title is of marginal quality, but of local interest. |
Purchase |
