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Alas, that I cannot directly reply to comments on Blogger! I use Livejournal to keep a personal diary, and that allows me to reply to someone's comments instead of just to the posting at large. I definitely don't really enjoy this site, but oh well.
From CLO 804
We don't fax to people's homes, for the most part, because we charge for print jobs. If they come to the library to pick up a print job, they have to pay. I can think of patrons who would LOVE to have endless free materials faxed right to their homes.
But the cost of faxing to a patron's home is incurred on their end, with their own fax machine and their own paper, right? And I think limiting the faxes to 20 pages would provide a nice cutoff point as it is consistent within the policy. Just my thoughts....
From CLO 800
Ah, all that info about property records dates from the distant past when you had to get it from the microfiche. We had a regular stream of queries from all areas of the country, and apparently it was very time consuming. Of course now it is all available online, and this section will not be included in the new reference policy (also updated, just not published yet)
A legal search would be something like - what is the statute of limitations on shoplifting? How can I get my husband to pay child support? My neighbor has an rv parked in his driveway, is this against the code in my neighborhood? Anything that requires an interpretation of a law or code. If the patron says, I need to see Florida statute 727.11, we can show that to them, because they ask for a specific citation. We can also show them the statutes (or regulations or codes) and how to use the indexes, etc., so they can get started on their own research.
I had suspected as much, but wasn't quite sure. And thank you for the clarification on a legal search. I had thought that a legal search was simply looking up a statute. Good to know!