Better World Books Pilot
February 23, 2009
The BYU Interlibrary Loan Department is trying out a new service provided by a commercial book vendor: Better World Books. Better World Books (BWB) is a book vendor that deals in used books; its primary goal is to provide books to underprivileged communities around the world. BWB has partnered with Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a nation library database to study the viability of delivering books to library patrons for loan or for purchase.
The Harold B. Lee Library is conducting a simple pilot to see if that service would be useful to the BYU community. Over the next few months we will be selecting some of our book interlibrary loan requests for the pilot. If your request has been selected, BWB will send the book to us and we will notify you to pick up the book as normal; you will get the book and a purple book slip (see the image in this post) as a reminder that this is a special loan. If you would like to keep the book, call us at 422-6344 or come to our office for more information. If you just want to borrow the book, simply return it to our department by the designated due date as usual.
Please let us know what you think about this service!
